{"id":55033,"date":"2015-07-09T19:32:16","date_gmt":"2015-07-09T11:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=55033"},"modified":"2015-07-09T19:32:16","modified_gmt":"2015-07-09T11:32:16","slug":"erc-to-discuss-meralcos-rate-reduction-petition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/07\/09\/erc-to-discuss-meralcos-rate-reduction-petition\/","title":{"rendered":"ERC to discuss Meralco&#8217;s rate reduction petition"},"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; The Energy Regulatory Commission is set to\u00a0discuss the rate reduction petition of the Manila Electric Company (Meralco) tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt (rate cut application of Meralco) will be taken up this Friday (July 10),\u201d ERC executive director Francis Saturnino Juan has indicated.<\/p>\n<p>Meralco earlier said that it will delay the dispatch of its billings for some customers pending the expected reduction petition.<\/p>\n<p>This, according to the utility firm, is in order for them to integrate distribution charges reduction in the upcoming billing cycle.<\/p>\n<p>The firm added that &#8220;it will slide the schedule of its bill delivery for a number of days for some of its customers as it awaits the order of the ERC.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meralco, meanwhile, said that \u201cthe generation charge for July is likely to go up due to higher prices at the Wholesale Electricity Spot Market (WESM) for the June supply month.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This, according to Meralco is triggered by\u00a0\u201cnumerous instances of forced outages by other power plants.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Malampaya gas restriction during said supply month also resulted in the use of more expensive alternative fuel (e.g. condensate) by some power plants, such as the First Gas plants,\u201d Meralco has expounded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; The Energy Regulatory Commission is set to\u00a0discuss the rate reduction petition of the Manila Electric Company (Meralco) tomorrow. &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-55033","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\/55033","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=55033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55033\/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=55033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}