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(Eagle News) – Around 280 power outages have been reported since Sunday evening, May 8, with at least 20 power outages recorded on election day itself, May 9, 2022. The Manila Electric Company (MERALCO), the largest power distributor in the country, reported on the 20 power outages that happened on election day, while the National Electrification Administration (NEA) reported a total of 262 power interruptions since Sunday evening, from 7 p.m. of May 8 until […]
(Eagle News) — The House Committee on Good Government and Public Accountability started probing the Manila Electric Company (MERALCO) amid the observed increase in electric bills amid the COVID-19 pandemic. In the hearing on Wednesday, July 15, lawmakers also questioned MERALCO executives on its operations, and on how it has been computing electric bills and other expenses passed on to its customers. Among those who are participating in the hearing are congressmen who had also […]
(Eagle News)–The Metro Rail Transit-3 has resumed operations after these had to be suspended early Friday, June 26, due to power interruption. The MRT-3 said its operations have resumed as of 7:30 a.m. Earlier, the MRT-3 said the “delay” in train operations was due to the Meralco power failure in Diliman and Balintawak yesterday, June 25, at 11:03 p.m. The MRT-3 had said buses under the MRT-3 bus augmentation program continued to ferry passengers, with […]
(Eagle News) — The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) has asked the Manila Electric Company to “explain and show proof” of its basis for its computation of electric bills of consumers during the past quarantine period amid mounting complaints of overcharging its consumers. ERC Chair Agnes VST Devanadera said that the commission had been “bombarded with complaints” about the Meralco high billing for the months of March, April and May, 2020 and the ERC wanted […]
(Eagle News) — Public utilities are extending bill payment extensions in view of the Luzon-wide community quarantine imposed by the government to contain the spread of COVID-19. In a customer advisory released Monday, March 16, MERALCO announced that it will provide a 30-day payment extension for all electric bills due from March 1 to April 14, 2020. “Stay safe and healthy; stay home,” the MERALCO advisory stated, adding that customers may use its online and […]
(Eagle News) – Expect a refund in electric bills after the Energy Regulatory Commission’s order for the refund to electricity customers of the Manila Electric Company (Meralco) some P1.08 billion after alleged “miscalculations” in the net settlement surplus (NSS) allocations from June last year to May this year. The P1.08 billion was the accumulated amount which ERC has ordered the market operators of the Wholesale Electricity Spot Market to return to electric customers covered […]
(Eagle News) – This July, electricity rates will go down again because of lower charges from independent power producers, according to Manila Electric Co. (Meralco) said Monday, July 8. This will be the third consecutive month of electricity rate cuts. “The downward adjustment of P0.1068 per kWh will mean a decrease of around P21 in the total bill,” Meralco said. “The third straight month of electricity rate decrease represents a total downward adjustment of around […]
(Eagle News)—Parts of Metro Manila, Cavite, Bulacan and Laguna will experience power service interruptions from Friday, May 17, to Sunday, May 19, Meralco announced. Below is the schedule: MANDALUYONG (May 18 – 19, 2019) BETWEEN 11 PM AND 11:45 PM (SAT., 05/18/19) AND THEN BETWEEN 6:15AM AND 7:00AM (SUN., 05/19/19) – PORTIONS OF CIRCUIT MANDALUYONG 54VD Portion of Shaw Blvd. from Epifanio Delos Santos Ave. (EDSA) to near Stanford St. in Bgy. Wack – Wack […]
(Eagle News) — Leftists on Tuesday, April 29, asked the Supreme Court to ban Manila Electric Corp. from imposing and collecting funds from customers that will make up the bill deposits. In a petition for certiorari, Neri Colmenares, Bayan Muna partlist Rep. Carlos Zarate, Anakpawis partylist Rep. Ariel Casilao, Gabriela Reps. Emerenciana de Jesus and Arlene Brosas, ACT Teachers partylist Rep. Francisca Castro, Kabataan partylist Rep. Sarah Elago and Bagong Alyansang Makabayan secretary general Renato […]
(Eagle News)—Some customers of Manila Electric Co. may have a temporary service disruption on Tuesday, April 23. “Your service may have been affected by a rotational brownout due to power shortage that may last for an hour,” Meralco said in an advisory, after the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines announced red and yellow alerts were hoisted over the Luzon grid. The NGCP said the yellow alert, which means reserves are less than the power […]
(Eagle News) — Two leftists have asked the Supreme Court to nullify what they said were the sweetheart deals entered into by Meralco with its own generating companies in 2016. For this, Bayan Muna chair Neri Colmenares and Rep. Carlos Zarate filed a petition-in-intervention with an application for urgent relief by way of temporary restraining order and/or writ of preliminary injunction to allow them to intervene in the case originally filed by Alyansa Para sa […]
(Eagle News) — Mawawalan ng suplay ng kuryente ngayong araw ang bahagi ng Pasig at Quezon City. Sa abiso ng Meralco, sa Santolan, Pasig, alas 10:00 ng umaga hanggang alas 3:00 ng hapon ang power interruption. Maaapektuhan nito ang bahagi ng Marcos Highway. Sa Barangay Dela Paz sa Pasig City pa rin, alas 11:45 ng gabi mamaya hanggang alas 4:45 ng umaga ang power interruption sa bahagi pa rin ng Marcos Highway. Habang sa Quezon […]
