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ERC strengthens rules on customer choice programs

The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) released the omnibus rules on consumer choice program in the retail electricity market to drive competition and empower consumers. The...

Gatchalian urges ERC to expedite measures aimed at lowering cost of electricity

Senator Sherwin Gatchalian urged the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) to accelerate and fully implement lower retail competition and open access (RCOA) threshold to enable...

Mindanao power retail competition to start March 26

The Department of Energy (DOE) said Wednesday the retail competition and open access (RCOA) and green energy option program (GEOP) in Mindanao will start...

Group pushes ‘bolder steps’ in shift to RE

An environmental advocacy group urges the incoming Marcos administration to take bolder steps in the country’s shift to renewable energy (RE). The Philippine Business for...

SC voids rules on mandatory power supplies

The Supreme Court declared as void the directives of the Department of Energy and the Energy Regulatory Commission on the mandatory compliance to the...

ERC expands coverage of retail competition and open access

The Energy Regulatory Commission said Monday it issued a resolution expanding the coverage of the Retail Competition and Open Access to promote competition and...

Ushering in the digital transformation of the energy sector

As the Philippines continues to be propelled through a brighter and better future, many industries who are driving the economy to new heights are...

Retail competition in power pushed

The Independent Electricity Market Operator of the Philippines is urging authorities to end the regulatory uncertainty over the electricity market by moving full steam...

Court’s TRO hinders power supply competition

The Energy Regulatory Commission on Thursday expressed concern over its inability to issue new retail electricity licenses in the wake of the temporary restraining...

Academe lauds TRO on RCOA

Towards the end of 2016, hundreds of power customers aired their grievances over what they saw as unreasonable and unrealistic rules emanating from a...

SC ruling frustrates electricity consumers

Household consumers, counting on their long-delayed dividends from energy sector reforms, found themselves empty-handed this week after the Supreme Court gave way to last-ditch...

Renewables surge; RCOA debate rages

Renewables are fast making their way into the energy mainstream and could be the norm in the not-so-distant future. Even Saudi Arabia, the world’s...

Group warns vs delays in RCOA

The Philippine Independent Power Producers Association warned that delays in the implementation of the retail competition and open access, or RCOA, will affect the...

All set for power retail competition

Residential and commercial electricity consumers may not realize it yet, but they may enjoy lower power rates as early as next year. Competition in...
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