The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) is establishing legal ground for the targeted revocation of a previous resolution allowing pass-through of the 3.0-percent franchise tax of transmission firm National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) to electricity consumers. “Our legal team is...
The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) will seek guidance from the Department of Energy (DOE) in setting the price of hydro and geothermal capacities under the green energy auction reserve (GEAR) given the huge cost for these projects. ERC Chairperson Monalisa C. Dimalanta noted of the cost for...
A joint task force of the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) and Department of Justice (DOJ) is being pushed, purposively to prosecute erring players in the restructured power industry. “What we’re trying to work out with the DOJ is the procedure … so we might form a task force to enforce the...
The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) will be prescribing new green energy auction reserve (GEAR) prices for the 8,160 megawatts of unsubscribed volumes in the recently-concluded renewable energy (RE) capacity tendering of the Department of Energy. ERC Chairperson Monalisa C. Dimalanta indicated...
The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) is seriously weighing the resumption of collection of the P0.0364 per kilowatt hour (kWh) feed-in-tariff allowance (FIT-All) in the electric bills of all consumers, amid dwindling subsidy fund for renewable energy (RE) capacities. According to ERC Chairperson...
San Miguel Global Power Holdings (SMGP), the electricity generating subsidiary of conglomerate San Miguel Corporation (SMC), has bewailed the higher electricity rates that consumers are now paying after the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) denied its tariff adjustment application last year. “It...
The Department of Energy (DOE) has issued notice of awards (NOAs) to 105 winning bids in the second round of green energy auction (GEA-2), an exercise that partly fulfills the country's renewable energy (RE) development roadmap. The winning project-developers will be awarded with 20-year power...
Senator Risa Hontiveros on Tuesday, July 11 said the power rate reduction that the Manila Electric Co. (Meralco) announced for the month of July is only minimal and temporary. The senator pointed out the decrease in electricity charges is bound to happen considering that the price of imported coal...
A tripartite collaborative approach has been reached by the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC), power utility giant Manila Electric Company (Meralco) and the city government of Pasig to promote the use of renewable energy (RE) in the host-locality. In a statement to the media, the ERC said that an...
The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) will mete out administrative penalties on transmission firm National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) if it cannot provide justifiable explanation or grounds why it had been swamped with project delays. “The ERC required the NGCP to explain why it...
Big power consumers, such as commercial and industrial facilities and distribution companies, can experience lower charges from the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines by efficiently adjusting their energy usage away from the peak demand period in a given day. Technically termed as...
The second green energy auction (GEA-2) administered by the Department of Energy (DOE) logged a relatively low turnout with bidders subscribing 3,580.76 megawatts only or just roughly 30-percent of the 11,600MW total capacity offered to investors for delivery within 2024-2026 timeframe. Preliminary...
