Electricity consumers in Luzon may expect higher bills as a result of the thin power supply in Luzon, which caused yellow and red alerts to be raised for three straight days early this week, the Department of Energy said Saturday.
Power consumers in Luzon, including Metro Manila, still have to brace for rotating brownouts this coming week, as the Department of Energy (DOE) warned of..
Published June 4, 2021, 5:02 PM
The National Electrification Administration (NEA) is seeking write-off of the consumers’ “worthless receivables”, including those whose records have been destroyed or already impossible to be retrieved.
In particular, NEA indicated in an addendum that it is providing clarification to the debts’ write-off mandate, following the bid of Lanao Del Sur Electric Cooperative (LASURECO) that its arrears be also expunged because records on such have already been lost or destroyed, including electronic storage devices, because of the armed conflict in Marawi in 2017.
According to NEA Administrator Edgardo R. Masongsong, “the existing NEA guidelines on the writing-off of receivables do not cover such conditions as a qualification for the writing-off of said receivables.”
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Threats of probable rotating brownouts would persist until June 10, as ‘red alert’ conditions are still foreseen in the country’s major power grid, according to the Department of Energy. In a presentation before the House Committee on Energy, DOE Director Mario C. Marasigan indicated that power