The Manila Electric Company will again raise this April electricity rates by P0.54 per kilowatt hour for the third time.
This is equivalent to an additional P107 for households consuming 200 kwh, P161 for 300 kwh, P215 for 400 kwh and P268 for 500 kwh. Meralco said a surcharge of P1 should have been enforced but the collection of over p1 billion charges the generators and Meralco had been postponed for the next few months, or after elections.