Thursday, 10 September 2026
12 Aug 2026
4:46PM
INSIDER VIEW | Line rentals: How to shield power consumers
In June and July 2024, electric cooperatives in Western and Eastern Visayas were hit with line rental charges of as much as P5.67 per kilowatt-hour, according to a resolution filed in the House of Representatives by power sector party-list representatives. Three years earlier, when an NGCP submarine cable failed, Iloilo’s power distributor owed P66 million in a single month, about P1.54 per kilowatt-hour landing on households that had nothing to do with a broken cable.
25 Nov 2024
7:56AM
INSIDER VIEW: Interconnecting the islands will increase power cost
Interconnecting islands for electricity may seem desirable for enhancing energy efficiency and reliability, but it may be paradoxically utterly wrong today.
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