CONSUMERS should expect to pay more for electricity after the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) approved a higher feed-in tariff allowance (FiT-All), which is used to subsidize renewable energy (RE) developers.

The ERC, in a February 27 decision docketed last week, authorized National Transmission Corp. (TransCo) to collect a FiT-All amounting to P0.2563 per kilowatt-hour (kWh). This translates to a P0.0733 per kWh hike from the current P0.1830/kWh.

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