By: Ronnel W. Domingo - / 05:10 AM July
28, 2018
With the Ease of Doing Business law
in place, the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) is reviewing its internal
processes to streamline and hasten actions on pending petitions amid a push to
rid the agency of its backlog.
When former Justice Secretary Agnes
Devanadera was installed as chair and chief executive of ERC in December 2017,
she said the regulator needed to act on 162 cases that involved a total of
about P1.59 trillion in investments from both local and foreign entities.
And with two of four commissioners
suspended while two seats remained vacant—the two other commissioners retired
earlier this month—the ERC hoped to double down on its zero-backlog efforts
once a quorum becomes possible again.
“Our efforts are geared toward
improving efficiency and effectiveness in light of the zero-backlog program
that the ERC is embarking on,” Devanadera said in a statement.
“With the review and streamlining of
processes that we have started to undertake, we were able to identify the
processes that need to be improved for each unit or section of the ERC,” she
added.
Devanadera said five out of the
seven ERC departments have completed their respective workshops intended to
revisit and streamline their work processes.
She said the ERC has also been
conducting a series of process reviews to expedite and improve internal work in
preparation for the full implementation of the new law on Ease in Doing
Business in the Government or Republic Act No. 11032.
“The process review and streamlining
is also in line with the ERC’s ‘5Es’ project that aims, among others, to
automate the process for transparency and accountability toward achieving
excellent results,” the ERC chair said.
“We expect that we will realize the
fruits of our initiatives soon in order to provide the electric power industry
stakeholders, including the consuming public, with better and faster services,”
she added.
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