ENERGY CIRCULARS ON UNIFORM ELECTRICITY BILL, RE USE INKED
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Energy Secretary Alfonso Cusi signed the circulars on August 24 and these are scheduled for publication, Energy Undersecretary Felix William Fuentebella said at the sidelines of PowerTrends 2018: The 13th International Exhibition and Conference on Energy Trends and Power Technologies at the SMX Convention Center in Pasay City on Tuesday.
DC2018-09-0026, or “Adopting Framework for Uniform Monthly
ensure greater transparency in how distribution utilities (DUs) bill their customers to protect the latter’s interest.
According to the circular, the bill should outline generation, transmission, distribution, and systems loss charges; subsidies/ discounts; government taxes; universal charges; feed- in- tariff allowance (FiT-All); and others.
It should also make consumers understand its components more easily, including the status of their bill deposit, and the principal and interest earned.
If requested, consumers shall have access to their bill records and other related details, including receipts, within a reasonable period and without cost, the circular said.
Electronic copies of the consumer’s bill shall be made available and accessible through the DU’s website or any other electronic means if they asked for them, it added.
Meanwhile, Department Circular DC2018-08-0024, or “RPS (Renewable Portfolio Standards)
contribute to the growth of the RE sector by mandating industry players in off-grid and missionary areas to source a certain percentage of their power requirements from eligible RE resources.
These are biomass; waste- toenergy technology; wind, solar, ocean and geothermal energy; run-of-river and impounding hydroelectric power systems; and other globally accepted resources
and technologies.
“It’s almost the same with the RPS for On-grid Areas, except the generation sector is the manda-
Fuentebella said.
This circular also seeks to
ra-
universal charge for missionary
by integrating RE in the supply mix.
The minimum RE percentage share shall consider any or a combination of the following:
RE resources in the area, adoption of hybrid or distributed RE generation systems, stable operation of existing generating units and reliability of the grid with the entry of an RE generation facility, and the capacity corresponding to the above minimum RE generation.
The baseline RE requirement, including the annual incremental RE generation in every off- grid area, shall be determined by the department’s composite team.
Actual RE generation after 2018 shall not be lower than 1 percent.
disputes with China and Canada.
Hong Kong climbed 0.9 percent while Shanghai added 1.1 percent after falling for five days.
Singapore rose 0.1 percent and Seoul was up 0.4 percent, while there were also gains in Wellington, Taipei and Mumbai. However, Sydney slipped 0.3 percent and Tokyo ended 0.1 percent lower.
Back in Manila, all sectoral indices were in the green territory with the mining and oil index leading gains by 1.08 percent.
Volume turnover, however, remained thin at only 874 million issues valued at P5.9 billion.
Winners edged losers, 101 to 87, while 52 issues were unchanged.
ANGELICA BALLESTEROS WITH A REPORT FROM AFP