Senator Risa Hontiveros on Wednesday reiterated her call for authorities to suspend any power rate increase until the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) is able to provide a clear and justifiable reason on the rising cost of electricity and investigation on the rotational blackouts is completed....
Senator Risa Hontiveros on Thursday questioned the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) over its P448-million expenses on advertisements and entertainment, saying these should not be passed on to electricity consumers as these are not critical to power transmission operations. “It...
Senator Risa Hontiveros on Tuesday, June 15 urged the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) to investigate Manila Electric Co.'s (Meralco) recent announcement of a power rate hike for June saying it “defies logic” even under the regime of deregulation. Hontiveros said the ERC must provide a...
Senator Sherwin Gatchalian is seeking passage of a measure that would open up the country’s electricity market by lifting the public offering requirement provision in the Electric Power Industry Reform Act or EPIRA Law to lure more generation companies into investing in the Philippines....
Senator Risa Hontiveros has urged the Senate to probe the failure of the government to bring down the cost of electricity rates in the country 20 years after the enactment of the Electric Power Industry Reform Act or the EPIRA Law. In filing Senate Resolution No. 746, Hontiveros said it is...
A Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) official on Tuesday, June 1, called on the concerned local government units (LGUs) to instill the necessary measures to ensure that coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccines are kept in storage facilities with uninterrupted power supply or with...
A measure allowing the extension of electricity lifeline rates for poor households until 2051 has been signed into law by President Duterte. President Rodrigo Duterte (File photo/Malacañang) Republic Act No. 11552 amended Section 73 of the Electric Power Industry Reform Act of 2001 or the EPIRA...
The House special committee on senior citizens on Thursday, May 27, gave its approval on the proposed laws to further expand the benefits of senior citizens in paying water and electricity bills. (Mark Balmores/MANILA BULLETIN File Photo) House Bills No. 1903 and 3040 both seek to amend the...
While renewable energy (RE) developers are brandishing that their technologies are already the cheapest in the market, the National Renewable Energy Board (NREB) ironically dropped the bomb that the programmed RE projects in the country will increase the power bills of Filipino consumers by P0.23...
Customers of Manila Electric Company (Meralco) will not need to be anxious on their December electricity bills, as initial forecast point to “flattish rate” or there could be very slight cost movement in the overall tariff. “Initial data suggests that generation costs for December will be...
For the first time this year, electricity demand in September breached comparative consumption in the same month in 2019, and this was gauged by Manila Electric Company (Meralco) as a signal that the Philippine economy is now ratcheting up on its recovery pace....
The commercial operations of the country’s Renewable Energy Market (REM) for on-grid installations had been re-scheduled to June next year -- factoring in a one-year delay because of the continued pummeling of the health crisis, according to the Department of Energy....
