The household budgets of customers served by power utility giant Manila Electric Company (Meralco) will be stretched thin this February, because the all-inclusive electricity rate to be passed on by the giant utility firm is anticipated to increase in this billing cycle. According to Meralco Vice...
Senator Sherwin Gatchalian on Monday, December 25 urged beneficiaries of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) to register in the government’s lifeline electricity rate program to avail of electricity bill discounts. Gatchalian said Republic Act 11552 or an Act Extending and...
Power distributor Manila Electric Co. (Meralco) denied anew Santa Rosa City Rep. Dan Fernandez's claim that the company overcharged its customers since 2012. In a statement on Sunday, Nov. 26, Jose Ronald Valles, Meralco first vice president and regulatory management head, said the company's rates...
DAVAO CITY – Electricity rates in Davao City have stabilized as coal prices in the world market have decreased, an executive of the Aboitiz-owned Davao Light and Power Company (DLPC) said. Rodger S. Velasco, DLPC president and chief operating officer, told Wednesdays Media Forum at Habi at Kape...
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), with the support of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), is exploring collaboration with peer-regulator National Energy Authority (NEA) of Papua New Guinea on how both countries can address high electricity rates in their...
The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) has kicked off its collaboration with the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) for the establishment of an electricity affordability index so Filipino consumers can fully track and be guided on the variation of the tariffs they have been paying...
Power rates in Mindanao region are expected to go down soon thanks to the completion by next month of the transmission link between Visayas and Mindanao by the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP), Cagayan de Oro 2nd district Rep. Rufus Rodriguez said on Monday, Feb. 13. Cagayan de...
Presidential son and Ilocos Norte 1st district Rep. Sandro Marcos refused to stand idle as his constituents continued to bear the brunt of costly electricity. Ilocos Norte 1st district Rep. Sandro Marcos (left) and ERC Commissioner Alexis Lumbatan (Facebook) That's why, when Marcos had the...
Human rights lawyer Chel Diokno will push for the use of renewable energy in the country to lower power rates if he clinches a Senate seat in the May 2022 polls. Human rights lawyer Chel Diokno (Photo from Diokno’s campaign team) Diokno, a senatorial aspirant, lamented that consumers are always...
Deputy Minority Leader and Bayan Muna Rep. Carlos Zarate has assailed anew the decision of power distributors to impose an increase in electricity rates this month, saying that the unabated adjustments will render useless government’s bid to attract investors. ELECTRIC METERS Zarate said that...
The La Niña weather phenomenon has already started driving down electricity rates this October in the country’s Wholesale Electricity Spot Market (WESM), with it going down by more than P1.00 per kilowatt hour (kwh) as of October 12 to P2.19 per kwh from the September average market price of...
