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 10th, 2008 at 8:19 pm
The most important and interesting part of our bill is the Generation Charge that represents the actual consumption. After Meralco added all their charges including value-added-tax which is computed twice, the bill practically ballooned to more than double the actual consumption cost.
May 10th, 2008 at 5:38 pm
last month was 6,000 pesos for a household of 6 adults.
May 9th, 2008 at 11:00 pm
mine is 350/person (3 adults and a baby)
May 9th, 2008 at 9:52 pm
We used to pay 1700 pesos for our 3 person household every month for sometime now so when we got our bill last month I thought for sure that there was a mistake. Our bill ballooned to 3500 pesos, that’s more than double the previous month and there’s no way it would have jumped that much in just a month specially when we didn’t increase electricity usage. No mistake, Meralco says. I don’t care who’s fault it is….Meralco, NAPOCOR or IPP’s…they better get their acts straight before people resort to drastic measures.
May 9th, 2008 at 6:44 pm
Gobierno at Meralco . . . pareho lang iyan…
… puro magnanakaw!