A senator lauded President Duterte’s green light for an extension of the “no disconnection” policy on electricity services for low-income households while a party-list representative said this undermined the stability of the power industry as well as other businesses.
Sen. Sherwin Gatchalian, who chairs the Senate committee on energy, said in a statement the extension gave “lifeline” customers—those that enjoy subsidies from other electricity consumers—of distribution utilities a timely and much-needed relief.
The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) sets the lifeline threshold depending on the distributor. For Meralco, lifeline customers are those billed for a monthly consumptio…
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