June 28, 2017

ERC denies staff recommendation to consolidate cases against Meralco, TMO, and 1590 Energy

By Lenie Lectura – June 27, 2017 from Business Mirror THE Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) denied the recommendation of a former investigating staff to consolidate the cases involving anticompetitive behavior and market abuse against the Manila Electric Co. (Meralco) and Therma Mobile Inc. […]
June 28, 2017

Enlistment kicks off for participants in WESM-Mindanao

By Myrna M. Velasco – June 27, 2017, 10:00 PM from Manila Bulletin With the launch of trial operations this week, formal registration of participants to the Wholesale Electricity Spot Market (WESM) in Mindanao also formally kicked off, according to a […]
June 27, 2017

ERC to schedule hearings vs 12 power companies

by Alena Mae S. Flores – June 25, 2017 at 06:01 pm from Manila Standard Today The Energy Regulatory Commission will schedule the long-delayed hearings against 12 companies charged with anti-competitive behavior, which increased prices at the wholesale electricity spot market in November […]
June 27, 2017

Scrapping of PBR power rate-setting pushed

By Myrna M. Velasco –  June 25, 2017, 10:01 PM from Manila Bulletin Consumer and advocacy groups are pushing for the scrapping of the performance-based regulation (PBR) on electricity rate-setting, with them noting that it had only been the profit-taking […]