ERC forced to do its duty

The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) has at last done its job—its duty—to protect the public from abuses of the players in our country’s power industry. But it was forced to do so.

In almost daily front page new reports and well-researched expose articles by columnist Rigoberto Tiglao these past months we have detailed the profit-making acts of the companies generating electric power and of the Manila Electric Company. Meralco is the monopoly that controls the distribution of electricity to businesses, factories, offices, schools, churches and households in Metro Manila and environs.