Surigao del Norte Rep. Robert Ace Barbers is seeking a congressional probe on Manila Electric Company’s supposed “redundant” power charges passed on to consumers.He said the Lower Chamber should look into the power distribution firm’s act of incorporating vague renewable energy, system loss and other charges in the consumers’ monthly electric bills, which he described as “substantial burden.”
Under HR 228, Barbers urged the Committee on Energy, chaired by Marinduque Rep. Lord Allan Jay Velasco to investigate Meralco’s enumerated power charges, including the “unfair” system loss charges. “Technical loss is fixed and quantifiable. But system loss due to electricity theft and pilferage and which are being charged to the power consumers is unfair. We the consumers are paying a high price from an electric energy stolen or pilfered by other people,” Barbers said.
Barbers noted that on January 1 this year, the Energy Regulatory Commission , provisionally approved the feed-in tariff allowance billing for all on-grid electricity consumers, despite pending petition before the Supreme Court.
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