{"id":46663,"date":"2015-04-10T10:50:46","date_gmt":"2015-04-10T02:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=46663"},"modified":"2015-04-10T10:50:46","modified_gmt":"2015-04-10T02:50:46","slug":"power-rates-increase-in-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/04\/10\/power-rates-increase-in-april\/","title":{"rendered":"Power rates increase in April"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_34133\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34133\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shutterstock_180605156.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-34133\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shutterstock_180605156-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"shutterstock\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shutterstock_180605156-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shutterstock_180605156-900x675.jpg 900w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shutterstock_180605156.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-34133\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">shutterstock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; Electricity rates increased by 27 centavos kilowatt (kWh) per hour this month in the Manila Electric Co. (Meralco) franchise area.<\/p>\n<p>The increase was\u00a0expected following the 30-day maintenance shutdown of the Malampaya gas platform off Palawan which will last until April 14.<\/p>\n<p>This has caused several gas-fired power plants to turn to alternative fuels in anticipation of the shutdown.<\/p>\n<p>It also forced major gas-fired power plants to use more expensive liquid fuel.<\/p>\n<p>The increase means that the overall electricity rate will increase at about P10.68 per kWh in April for a typical household consuming 200 kWh.<\/p>\n<p>The rate is a bit higher than the P10.41 per kWh last month.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, average users&#8217; rate is still lower \u00a0by 81 centavos per kWh compared to the year-ago rate of P11.49 per kWh recorded April last year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; Electricity rates increased by 27 centavos kilowatt (kWh) per hour this month in the Manila Electric Co. (Meralco) &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":34133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}