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LUCENA CITY – An activist priest and energy advocate from Quezon province welcomed the modest reduction in Manila Electric Co. (Meralco) rates this August but said the cut provides insufficient relief to consumers.
“Any reduction in electricity rates is a welcome development, but we should not mistake it for significant relief,” Fr. Warren Puno, director of the Ministry of Ecology of the Diocese of Lucena, said in a statement on Tuesday (Aug 11).
Puno said Filipino consumers need more than a temporary reduction in their electricity bills, calling instead for long-term reforms that would create an affordable, clean, and equitable power system.
Meralco supplies electricity to about 8.3 million customers in Metro Manila, Bulacan, Cavite, Rizal, and parts of Pampanga, Laguna, Batangas, and Quezon provinces.
