Lawmaker urges ERC to fast-track system loss review

THE Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) should fast-track its assessment of the system loss program to facilitate the early implementation of new system loss caps that would reduce the charges that private distribution utilities and electric cooperatives may pass on to their consumers, a lawmaker said on Monday.

Senator Sherwin Gatchalian, chairman of the Senate Committee on Energy, also urged the ERC to put in place a periodic review of the system loss program to encourage power supply stakeholders to engage in more efficient processes.