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The government should tighten competition safeguards in the country’s power sector as it amends the two-decade-old Electric Power Industry Reform Act (EPIRA) of 2001, with preliminary research showing that the five largest conglomerates control about 85 percent of nationwide installed generation...

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. earned widespread public approval when he declared in his fifth State of the Nation Address that consumers should no longer pay the system loss charge on their electricity bills. His reasoning was straightforward. Electricity lost before it reaches homes and...