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P7 billion electricity losses

Latest Daily Tribune news and analysis on P7 billion electricity losses.

  1. A so-called ‘jumpertrician’ making illegal jumper connections, that is, direct tapping of power lines without permits, meters, or safety standards. Such illegal practice, otherwise known as non-technical loss, takes up 4 percent of the 10.45 percent average system loss posted by electric cooperatives.

    DoE puts P7-B price tag on power loss fix

    Government plans to spend more than P7 billion to reduce non-technical power losses from theft, faulty meters and weak collections at electric cooperatives.