January 6, 2021

Viewpoint: Bidding for power supply contracts above board, says Meralco

By Ronnel W. Domingo – 04:05 AM January 06, 2021 from Philippine Daily Inquirer / @inquirerdotnet Manila Electric Co. (Meralco) maintains that its ongoing efforts to secure additional electricity supply through competitive bidding of contracts are above board as these […]
June 9, 2020

5.7 M consumers seen to benefit from 20-year extension of subsidy

By Myrna M. Velasco – June 8, 2020, 10:00 PM from Manila Bulletin Roughly 5.7 million marginalized Filipino household consumers are expected to benefit from the targeted 20-year extension of the subsidized electricity rates bestowed to end-users that are in […]
February 3, 2020

PSALM to stop collecting universal charge for SCC

By Lenie Lectura – February 3, 2020 from Business Mirror THE Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management (PSALM) Corp. will no longer collect from consumers P0.0543 per kilowatt-hour (kWh) Universal Charge for Stranded Contract Costs (UC-SCC) starting this month. “This […]
December 29, 2019

True Competition in Power…. Our Simple But Very Elusive Dream

David Celestra Tan, MSK 29 December 2019 The supposed aim of the EPIRA Law was simple enough. To assure sufficient supply of power at fair and reasonable costs. To achieve that, it is supposed to create true competition to give […]