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By Myrna M. Velasco
The Department of
Energy (DOE) is pushing for further itemization of cost components in electric
bills – primarily those touching on bill deposits and interest charges; as well
as the tax rates integrated in the monthly bills dispatched to consumers.
In a draft Department
Circular issued by the department for public consultation, it indicated that it
wants to further unbundle the power rates so consumers can be properly apprised
where their electricity service payments go across the service chain of the
industry.
One particular item
that DOE wants reflected shall be the charges “collected by the distribution
utilities from all electricity end-users, including but not limited to
generation, transmission, distribution, supply and metering charges.”
At the same time, the
DUs are directed to further unbundle costs relating to “bill and meter
deposits, including interest thereon and any other charges that the ERC may
approve to be collected from the electricity end-users.”
For each cost component,
the DOE is likewise mandating all service front-lining DUs to “reflect
corresponding percentage share of each component on the total amount billed to
the electricity end-users.”
The overall intent of
the policy, according to the department, will be to render the electric bills
“simple and easy to understand” for all Filipino power consumers.
On the bill deposit
mandate, the DOE said it wants the interest charges as well as corresponding
adjustments itemized in the billing.
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