HeyJaredBienvenido Oplas Jr
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- Sep 30, 2026
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EPIRA at 25: The distribution utilities (opens the original)
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The Electric Power Industry Reform Act of 2001 (EPIRA, RA 9136) turned 25 years old this year. I wrote a three-parts series last month in my column in BusinessWorld: “EPIRA at 25: More lights, less blackouts, fewer subsidies, lower prices?” (Part 1, Sept. 8), “EPIRA at 25” (Part 2, Sept. 15), and “EPIRA at 25: Goals reached, new issues for the future” (Part 3, Sept. 29). The articles discussed the reforms and privatization of the country’s power generation, transmission (privatization of concess
Short to long-term solutions to blackout (opens the original)
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As we often hear and read now, the most expensive electricity is no electricity – blackout. Appliances and light bulbs are easily damaged, food in the refrigerator are spoiled, small shops with aircon are forced to close. The poor use candles and courting with fires, the rich can use gensets and it can be noisy while diesel is expensive. Rooftop solar is good but it must have battery and not export uncontracted, unneeded excess electricity at daytime when prices are lower than nighttime prices.
Philippines industrialization and hype vs reality of Pax Silica (opens the original)
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Last week, Sept. 2, the Philippine Semiconductor and Electronics Industry Roadmap (PSEIR) was launched and the Semiconductor and Electronics Industry Advisory Council (SEIAC) was created, headed by Executive Secretary Ralph Recto. Other members of the council are the secretaries of DOF, DEPDev, DTI, DepEd, CHED, TESDA, etc. The purpose of PSEIR is to help secure a bigger Philippine share of the trillion-dollar global semiconductor industry, bring in more investments and high-paying jobs for Fili
The ERC, Nasecore, pumped hydro and nuclear power (opens the original)
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Last Monday a “consumer group” went to the Ombudsman and filed a complaint against Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) officials for allowing line rental charges embedded in electricity bills. The National Association of Electricity Consumers for Reforms (Nasecore) wants the Ombudsman to determine if there are legal basis for such charges, and if credits were returned to the consumers especially those in the Visayas grid where yellow-red alerts are experienced almost daily. Last Tuesday, the ERC
System loss, electric cooperatives, RES and nuclear power (opens the original)
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System loss (SL) in electricity comes from technical losses or due to physics and from non-technical losses or due to thefts and cheats. In the Philippines, those under private and corporate distribution utilities have lower SL – only about five percent under Meralco – and an average of 10.5 percent under electric cooperatives (ECs) nationwide. Distribution of SL, technical loss is about 99 percent in Meralco and non-technical loss only about one percent. Under ECs, non-technical loss is about f
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