Consumers of Manila Electric Co. (Meralco) may realize a modest reprieve from elevated power rates as regulators gave the green light to implement a P9.5-billion refund. Based on its decision dated July 31, the Energy Regulatory Commission ordered the country’s biggest power distributor to refund the equivalent rate of P0.3449 per kilowatt-hour (kWh) within six months as a separate line item in consumers’ electricity bills. According to ERC chair and CEO Francis Saturnino Juan, the implementation would begin next billing cycle upon the receipt of the ruling. Under a rate reset process, a regulated entity, such as Meralco, must submit to the […]...Keep on reading: ERC orders Meralco to refund P9.5B