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....
New wave of power plant outages and the recent gas output restriction at the Malampaya field triggered new round of spikes in prices at the Wholesale Electricity Spot Market (WESM), which will be subsequently passed on as rate hike in the consumers’ electric bills for October. In a virtual...
