{"id":61010,"date":"2015-09-08T20:10:54","date_gmt":"2015-09-08T12:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=61010"},"modified":"2015-09-08T20:10:54","modified_gmt":"2015-09-08T12:10:54","slug":"power-rates-down-gas-prices-up-this-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/09\/08\/power-rates-down-gas-prices-up-this-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Power rates down, gas prices up this month"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_11468\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11468\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/power-lines-electricity.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11468\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/power-lines-electricity.jpg\" alt=\"(Shutterstock image)\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/power-lines-electricity.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/power-lines-electricity-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/power-lines-electricity-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11468\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Shutterstock image)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 The Manila Electric Company\u2019s (Meralco) residential power rates will go down by P0.57 per kilowatt hour (kwh) this month, after the generation charge pulled down its tariff by P0.42 per kwh.<\/p>\n<p>This has been the fifth consecutive month that the utility firm lowered its rates, with the total reduction already at P2.00 per kwh.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis brings the total reduction to P2.13 per kwh over the past five months. This month\u2019s reduction also marks the seventh time this year that rates have gone down,\u201d Meralco said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from the lower generation charge, the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines\u2019 (NGCP) transmission charge, as well as taxes and other charges, also declined.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn addition to the generation charge, transmission charge also registered a reduction of P0.04 per kwh due to lower power delivery service and ancillary service charges\u2026 [Moreover], taxes and other charges went down by P0.05 per kwh and P0.06 per kwh, respectively,\u201d the statement continued.<\/p>\n<p>This month\u2019s overall rate, which has been P1.81 lower than the rate during the same period last year, was the lowest recorded in five years.<\/p>\n<p>Typical households consuming around 200 kilowatt hours (kwhs) will then have a P113.46-reduction in their electricity bills. Those consuming 300 kwh, 400 kwh and 500 kwh can expect a P170.19, P226.92 and P283.65-drop in their bills, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, gas prices increased after weeks of price rollbacks. Gasoline was up by P1.75 per liter, while diesel and kerosene was increased by P1.95 and P1.85 per liter as of 12:01 a.m., September 8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 The Manila Electric Company\u2019s (Meralco) residential power rates will go down by P0.57 per kilowatt hour (kwh) this &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":11468,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,1145,16,95],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-61010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-rewrite","mauthors-cyra-moraleda","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61010","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}