More than 11,000 residents of the California Garden Square (CGS) condominium in Mandaluyong City, are intensifying their call on the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) for immediate intervention to prevent disconnection of their electricity services. The urgent plea to the regulatory body followed...
The 13th division of the Court of Appeals (CA) has granted the petition for writ of preliminary injunction (WPI) lodged by South Premiere Power Corporation (SPPC), a subsidiary of SMC Global Power Holdings of the San Miguel group, that will continually suspend the implementation of its power supply...
The 16th division of the Court of Appeals (CA) has denied the petition of San Miguel Energy Corporation (SMEC) for a temporary restraining order (SMEC) on its supply of 330-megawatt capacity to Manila Electric Company (Meralco) from the Sual coal-fired power plant. With the appellate court’s...
The Department of Energy (DOE) will be requiring the generation companies (GenCos) to submit additional reports, detailing monthly operational data of their power plants, sales, power supply and fuel consumption, that could help the government improve its monitoring, planning as well as on policy...
The roughly 7.5 million customers being served by power utility giant Manila Electric Company (Meralco) will have to brace for P0.7897 per kilowatt hour (kWh) hike in electricity rates as a result of the two-week scheduled shutdown of the Malampaya gas production platform next month. The increase...
The Commission on Audit (COA) has registered P800,000 in aggregate cost savings following the installation of solar panels in the rooftop of its two-building offices in Quezon City. The solar rooftop installation of the state audit agency had been carried out in partnership with state-run...
The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) will be targeting phased approval of the P30.8 billion worth of cost recoveries that state-run National Power Corporation (NPC) has lodged via its series of universal charge for missionary electrification (UCME) applications. ERC Chairperson Monalisa C....
The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) has scheduled series of public hearings on the tariff adjustment of transmission system operator National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) for its fourth regulatory reset covering the periods 2016-2020. The rate reset is a regulatory lag in the rates...
Distribution firms must set up refund facility -- ERC By Myrna M. Velasco The country’s power distribution utilities (DUs) are being mandated to set up "restricted fund" which they can readily tap into for the implementation of refund to customers. This contingency is in preparation in case a...
The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) has announced that transmission firm National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) has already filed an application for its tariff adjustment that is expected to result in lower electricity rate to be implemented next year. The regulatory body has not...
A limited hedge on fuel supply procurement that a power generator can avail of has been the major justification cited by Aboitiz Power Corporation for the higher rate of P5.69 per kilowatt hour (kWh) it offered to Manila Electric Company (Meralco) in their emergency power supply agreement (EPSA)....
With higher budget allocation, the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) indicated that it will pursue "digitalization" of its processes, so it can fast-track the approval of power supply agreements (PSAs) as well as the capital expenditure (capex) applications of power utilities. “We’ll pursue...
