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THE Department of Energy (DOE) on Thursday said the extremely high temperatures have been affecting the operations of power plants as the red alert was once again raised for the third consecutive day in the Luzon grid. The red alert notice was up from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. and…

Twin reduction wipes out rate increases since the start of the year.

Electricity rates this month will go down by almost P1 per kilowatt hour (kWh) to P10.9518 per kWh from P11.9397 per kWh in March, the Manila Electric Co. (Meralco) said Monday. Meralco said the rate reduction, which is equivalent to a decrease of around P198 in the total electricity bill…

THE Manila Electric Company (Meralco) will register a customer count of eight million this year, an increase of about 2.5 percent from last year’s 7.8 million. During a recent news briefing, the utility firm reported that it expects to reach 8 million customers by November 2024. “We expect to hit…

HIGHER power generation charge led to an increase of P0.5738 per kilowatt-hour (kWh) in the February electricity rate, bringing overall rate for a typical household to P11.9168 per kWh this month from P11.3430 per kWh in January. For residential customers of the Manila Electric Company (Meralco) consuming 200 kWh, the…

Iloilo City Mayor Jerry Treñas appealed to the Office of the President, DoE, and the ERC to intervene and place the power transmission service provider to own u

With emergency repairs to a baseload plant underway, the Guam Power Authority (GPA) is notifying island residents that a partial implementation of rotating outages is possible. Implementation should b

The Guam Power Authority announced the potential outage schedule for the month of November. Officials said the notice will allow customers time to plan around possible one-hour rotating outages. The p

The National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) has issued a yellow alert in the Luzon Grid on Tuesday, July 11 from 1:00 PM to..

Some parts of Manila Electric Company (Meralco) franchise area experienced power interruption on Tuesday due to a tripping that led to the decrease of 396 megawatts (MW) in the utility firm’s power supply. “At 10:58 a.m., an automatic load dropping [ALD] occurred.… The service interruption affected approximately 500,000 Meralco customers…