Meralco, magpapatupad ng dagdag-singil ngayong Hunyo

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00:00Advice to all consumers,

00:01Meralco is going to implement the high price this month

00:05if you want to know how much it will be in the interest of Clay's Alphardelia.

00:10Lorna would like to shop but she just went outside the house to get some fresh air.

00:17It's hot inside the house, we don't have electricity.

00:20We're saving and we're paying a lot.

00:24Will Lorna's savings have a negative effect?

00:28This month of June,

00:30Meralco will implement the increase in electricity prices.

00:34The increase is 64 cents per kilowatt hour

00:39due to the high demand that pushed the generation cost,

00:44the reduction of Pesos versus Dollars,

00:46and transmission charge.

00:48The bill of Meralco's customers is reduced from Php 129 to Php 322

00:56which consumes Php 200 to Php 500 kilowatts.

01:01The bill should be higher

01:04but Meralco is talking about reducing the payment from power suppliers.

01:11The generation charge reached Php 35 per kilowatt hour rounded off.

01:22This bill should be higher

01:32but to ease the effect of the bill of the customers,

01:36we are talking to our different power suppliers

01:42to exclude the reduction.

01:46The deferred generation cost of Php 500 million

01:50will be collected equally over three months.

01:53There is no interest.

01:55The increase was reduced to Php 3 million

01:58which is a total of Php 45 per kilowatt hour

02:02that will be collected until August.

02:04But Meralco said that this can be eased

02:08depending on the movement of electricity prices in the market.

02:11I think and I hope the worst is over

02:15as far as the surge in demand is concerned.

02:18The weather has slowly been in a better climate condition.

02:26Maybe the price in the spot market will be softer as well.

02:33For now, in order to reduce the consumption of consumers,

02:37the Energy Regulatory Commission has allowed Meralco

02:42to reduce the supply of 910 megawatts of electricity

02:45from Iliha Natural Gas Plant.

02:48The ERC explained that this will protect consumers

02:52from the rising prices of wholesale electricity spot markets

02:56where there is usually a pressure to increase prices

03:00due to the increase in supply.

03:02Kalei Zaltordilia for Pambansang TV in Bagong, Philippines.