All these talk about Meralco and the high cost of electricity has made me wonder what the average Filipino household’s power bill looks like.
To make the comparison fair, why don’t we divide our electricity bill with the number of persons living in the house, including babies. I think the little darlings consume a bigger amount of electricity compared with the average person (need for airconditioning etc.)
For April, I paid P805.88 per person.
How does that compare with yours?
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Meralco shares went into a nosedive today after news of a possible investigation (good luck with making it look like a friendly Q&A) by Congress into how Meralco runs the show. If there’s anyone in the audience who doesn’t know that this is politically driven, raise your hand.
No hands?
If this entire hullabaloo actually brings down my electricity bill, goodie. But here’s a So What Chocnut snippet that people should not miss.
Exactly 20% of that electricity bill goes to Meralco. If you look at your bill, you will see the biggest portion is called generation charge, which goes to the independent power producers and the National Power Corp.
Yes, that means the government.
That simply means the power to bring down electricity rates is in the government’s hands. And that should make you wonder what the administration is trying to do. This early, the business community is already worried. Of course they are not buying the we-want-to-drive-down-electricity-costs-for-poor-Filipinos line. Former central bank governor and AIG’s standard bearer Joey Cuisia has already been interviewed on television saying, “After Meralco, who next?” Not good for business confidence.
May 9th, 2008 at 6:32 pm
there are 3 of us, and our bill is 3300 (thats 1100 each)
but that is because we have aircon in 2 rooms, and we have work at home priviledges (and thats twice a week - full blast aircon since its summer)
on normal months, its only 1500 (500 each)
May 9th, 2008 at 6:01 pm
Mine is P540. 2 adults and 3 kids.
I’m just wondering who’s to blame in the higher power cost. Is it Meralco or the government? I think both of them….
May 9th, 2008 at 5:39 pm
I heard it from reliable sources it’s going to be option 3 for Mr. Garcia. I’m giving my proxy vote to the current management. Garcia is a corporate raider and only seeks to profit from this deal. I know how corporate raiders operate because many years ago I was a consultant to one. He took over a large company from a prominent family and it was a downturn from then on for the company.
May 9th, 2008 at 5:34 pm
mine was 1500 with 11.1% system loss.
May 9th, 2008 at 4:39 pm
mine is 800 pesos per month… i live alone with 2 television sets, 1 laptop computer, 2 electric fans and 1 washing machine… no airconditioning unit…