November 21, 2017

Lawmaker seeks clear delineation of powers between ERC and PCC

By Lenie Lectura – November 20, 2017 from Business Mirror The Senate Committee on Energy is urging  the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) and the Philippine Competition Commission (PCC) to clearly define their respective roles involving competition matters in the energy sector. Committee Chairman […]
November 6, 2017

DOE to review pass-on power charges

By Lenie Lectura -November 6, 2017 from Business Mirror A recent decision of the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) that allowed an electric cooperative (EC) to pass on to its customers P232 million worth of unpaid power fees owed to a power supplier […]
October 24, 2017

Our National Dance on Market Concentration in Power….and the Resulting Monopolization, Oligopolization, and Cartelization.

David Celestra Tan, MSK 22 October 2017 The DOE and ERC have been dancing around the issue of Market Concentration in Power since the get-go of the crafting and passing of the Electric Power Industry Reform Act of 2001 that […]
October 18, 2017

Lawmaker seeks ERC clarification on power market-share limitation

By Lenie Lectura – October 17, 2017 from Manila Bulletin A lawmaker will discuss with the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) ways on how to reconcile discrepancy between installed and dependable power-generating capacity. In his keynote speech, Sen. Sherwin T. Gatchalian on Tuesday said the metric […]