Ben D. Kritz
LAST week, Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) chairman Jose Vicente Salazar took to the media to make a case for one of the two significant regulatory improvements pushed by the Aquino era version of the agency, Retail Competition and Open Access (RCOA). As is usually the case with anything even faintly progressive or customer-friendly contrived by the ERC, the regulator finds itself mounting a defense against a single malcontent, distribution giant Meralco, the nation’s largest electric company.