Irate power consumers here on Tuesday took turns grilling officials of the Iligan Light and Power Co. (ILPC) as they demanded that the officials explain the nearly P3 increase per kilowatt hour in their electric bills.
A grenade explosion that damaged the main power transformer of Pampanga Electric Cooperative II (Pelco II) on Tuesday resulted in a 26-hour power outage that affected residential areas and businesses here.
Opponents of the plan to privatize the Albay Electric Cooperative (Aleco) scored an initial victory after the regional trial court (RTC) here granted their petition for a temporary restraining order (TRO) to stop the process of turning over to the private sector the nearly bankrupt cooperative.
Two electricity consumers in Albay filed on Friday a petition asking the Regional Trial Court here to issue a temporary restraining order (TRO) to prevent the interim board of the Albay Electric Cooperative (Aleco) from implementing the privatization of the debt-ridden electric cooperative.
The Court of Tax Appeals has ordered the Tuguegarao City Regional Trial Court to hear the protest of the National Power Corporation (Napocor) regarding the Cagayan’s claim that it is liable to pay P20.8 million franchise tax from 2001 to 2007.
The Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) has asked the Court of Appeals (CA) to reconsider a Jan. 30 ruling invalidating the lease development agreement and the environmental compliance certificate (ECC) of a consortium of energy firms that proposes to put up a coal-fired power plant inside this free port.
Millions of people in Mindanao, who have been grappling with power interruptions lasting for hours every day, must accept the reality of paying more for electricity or having none at all, President Benigno Aquino III said Tuesday.
The supreme Court awarded P150,000 in damages to a couple in Naga City who claimed to have been harassed by the local electric cooperative for seven years over the unpaid bills of their former tenant worth around P11,000.
While a few villages in the city still reel from sporadic brownouts, President Benigno Aquino III has signed a law granting a 25-year franchise to a private company to take over the city’s power distribution system.
As soon as the clock struck noon on Monday, Gerardo Sator, a former employee of the local government of Pantabangan, Nueva Ecija, knew his soft drinks business in the town would be dead for an indefinite period.
The chair of the provincial board’s agriculture committee plans to call a public hearing to help clear the names of residents of Masantol, Pampanga, who denied receiving aid from a project funded by the government’s shares in royalties from the Malampaya gas project in Palawan.
A petition has been filed asking the Supreme Court to reverse its decision declaring as valid the government sale of the 246 megawatt Angat Hydro-Electric Power Plant (AHEPP) in Bulacan to Korea Water Resources Corporation (K-Water).
Palawan Governor Abraham Kahlil B. Mitra on Friday branded as “hypocritical moralists” critics of the projects constructed from profits of the Malampaya fund, which were undertaken during his term as congressman of Palawan’s second district from 2004 to 2008.
