August 10, 2017

Consumers, CSOs launch national campaign against Meralco’s costly ‘sweetheart’ deals

By BusinessMirror – August 9, 2017 Civil society organizations and consumers from the Power for People Coalition (P4P) who petitioned against Meralco’s Power Supply Agreements launched “NAGMAMAHAL, MERALCO”, a campaign contesting the company’s sweetheart deals with companies powered by dirty and costly energy. […]
August 7, 2017

Meralco bill to increase slightly in August

By Lenie Lectura – August 6, 2017 from Business Mirror In Photo: Meralco officials, led by Jose Antonio T. Valdez (seated, second from left), vice president and head of marketing; Joe Zaldarriaga (seated, fourth from left), assistant vice president and Public Information Office […]
August 2, 2017

Lantau Group sees lower electricity rates with nonapproval of Meralco PSAs

By Lenie Lectura – August 1, 2017 from Business Mirror HONG Kong-based think tank, Lantau Group, said the nonapproval of the power-supply agreements (PSAs) between the Manila Electric Co. (Meralco) and power producers will create instead what it called a “contracting gap” that […]
August 2, 2017

WESM doing wonders for power sector

By Lenie Lectura – August 2, 2017 from Business Mirror ELEVEN years since it was launched in Luzon and seven years after in the Visayas, the Wholesale Electricity Spot Market (WESM) has promoted competition and transparency—and has continued to multiply investors—in the power […]