MANILA, Philippines - More energy customers have opted to choose their own power provider in the first half of the year, signaling retail competition in the market is finally gaining ground. From only ...
Daniel Liberto is a journalist with over 10 years of experience working with publications such as the Financial Times, The Independent, and Investors Chronicle. Jared Ecker is a researcher and ...
One of the standard, even true, memes within economics is that we must be very wary of monopolies. The incentives are for monopolists to over charge us, thus making us poorer and themselves richer, by ...
The Department of Energy (DOE) noted a “significant increase” in the number of contestable consumers eligible to choose their own suppliers under the Retail Competition and Open Access (RCOA). During ...
THE Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) complaints are rising from contestable customers concerning the alleged improper implementation and unilateral termination of retail supply contracts (RSCs). In ...
UP TO 32% of electricity users that have been certified as “contestable” and can directly buy power from retail suppliers have yet to register in the retail electricity market, the Philippine ...