August 14, 2025 | 12:00am
MANILA, Philippines — Customers can count on a spike in transmission charges this month following the Power Regulatory Fee (ERC)’s order directing the grid operator’s restoration of P28.3-billion investments.
The general transmission charge for the July provide interval elevated by 9.25 p.c to P1.3233 per kilowatt-hour from the earlier month’s P1.2113 per kWh, in accordance with the Nationwide Grid Corp. of the Philippines.
NGCP enterprise and regulatory growth head Julius Ryan Datingaling advised a press briefing yesterday that the rise was because of the “new income of P58 billion and the under-recoveries of P28 billion.”
Datingaling was referring to the ERC order directing the grid operator to gather its whole under-recoveries over a seven-year interval.
The regulator has additionally allowed the NGCP to get better a most allowable income of P58.1 billion, a rise from the beforehand authorized P51.47 billion.
The ERC approval varieties a part of the NGCP’s fourth regulatory interval reset, protecting the years 2016 to 2022.
The changes for the July provide interval can be mirrored in shoppers’ energy payments this month.
Transmission charges, or the pass-through prices for transporting electrical energy from energy vegetation to distribution programs, account for about 10 p.c of the electrical energy invoice.
For this month, the transmission wheeling charges, or what the NGCP fees for its main service of delivering energy, rose to P0.5923 per kWh from P0.4611 per kWh.
The ancillary service charges, in the meantime, went right down to P0.5872 per kWh from P0.6182 per kWh.
Ancillary service charges are pass-through prices charged for companies required to take care of the soundness of the facility grid throughout supply-demand imbalances. Such fees are instantly remitted to era corporations offering backup energy to the grid.
