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Baghdad (AFP) — Power was out across Iraq on Monday as scorching summer temperatures pushed electricity grid demand to unprecedented levels, authorities said.
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Consumers will pay more for power this month as the Manila Electric Co. (Meralco) has raised rates by P0.6268 per kilowatt-hour (kWh) in August, the second…
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Meralco stressed that its distribution charge is one of the lowest among all distributors in the country.
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GDP growth for the second quarter of 2025 was reported to be at 5.5 percent. While this can be viewed as stable growth, given that the first quarter growth was…
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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has ordered all listed companies to scrap the decades-old classification of common shares into Class A and Class B…
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It would bring great relief to end-users and consumers to have a government able to step on the brakes rather than step on the gas in the matter of electricity…
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For investors and would-be stockholders, the lesson is simple: ensure your rights are properly documented, not just reported.
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The Supreme Court (SC) has upheld the preventive suspension of a senior engineer by his employer, JGC Philippines Inc., in a dispute over software ownership.
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Manila Electric Co. (Meralco) posted a consolidated core net income of P25.5 billion in the first half of the year, a 10 percent increase from P23.2 billion a…
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'I would like to thank the President for the trust and confidence placed in me to head the ERC, the agency tasked with promoting the interests of all…
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The PCC shared the results of its competition impact assessment of Republic Act 11202 or the MNP Act.
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‘Once this is cleaned up by the Commission, there should be a refund. They shouldn’t have charged those costs. This is an opportunity for rates to go down.’
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MORE Power’s average residential electricity rate increased slightly in July 2025, rising to ₱10.6149 per kilowatt-hour (kWh) from ₱10.5249 in June — an uptick…
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Outgoing Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) chairperson and CEO Monalisa Dimalanta said electricity rates can still go down, with reforms already showing…
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‘IEMOP should implement a policy framework that ensures defaulters are held accountable and that compliant members are protected from bearing the cost of…
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What the anti-gun lobby refuses to say is that legal gun ownership in the Philippines is already one of the most regulated in the region.
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After two straight months of rate rollbacks, the Manila Electric Company (Meralco) is raising power rates by P0.4883 per kilowatt-hour (kWh) this July,…
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