MANILA, Philippines — Sen. Risa Hontiveros is calling for an investigation of the alleged failure of government agencies to ensure the affordability of electricity rates in the country, 20 years after the Electric Power Industry Reform Act (Epira) was enacted into law.
Senate Resolution No. 746 seeks to determine the “deficiencies and failures” of the Department of Energy and the Energy Regulatory Commission to bring down power rates in the country.
“The lowering of electricity rates could have been achieved faster than 20 years had the agencies that were mandated to make this thing happen did what was supposed to be done in an appropriate and resolute manner,” the resolution…
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