The House Committee on Energy on Monday, May 24 approved a bill that would give the Joint Congressional Energy Commission (JCEC) a permanent status, removing in the process its expiration as a body exercising oversight functions on the energy sector. In a committee hearing alternately presided over...
Electricity consumers will be greeted with a “Happy New Year rate hike” as they will need to pay more as subsidy to renewable energy (RE) projects via the feed-in-tariff allowance (FIT-All) line item in the electric bills that had been jacked up to P0.0983 per kilowatt hour (kwh), almost double...
Filipino consumers will be spared from worrying over electricity service interruptions or brownouts during the Christmas holidays, as the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) formalized its order of “no electricity service disconnection’ until December 31 this year. (MANILA BULLETIN) The...
The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) has admitted before a Senate Committee on Energy hearing that it is still swamped with more than 55,000 of unresolved consumer-complaints that were lodged before it from March to October this year. Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC FACEBOOK / MANILA BULLETIN)...
Power utility giant Manila Electric Company (Meralco) said it will first wait for the guidelines to be issued by the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) before serving disconnection notices to consumers that still have arrears or unpaid bills by October 31 this year. “We will await ERC guidelines...
The Department of Energy (DOE) is pushing for revisions in the guidelines that must be followed by power plant owners and operators so they can prospectively limit the testing and commissioning of their facilities within a two-month span – a phase that the electric generating units would have to...
