A LAWYER has championed us electricity consumers against the corporate greed of renewable energy producers in their bid to collect money from us for electric power “that has yet to be generated by power plants that have yet to be built.”

Our hero is Lawyer Remigio Michael Ancheta. On Tuesday he petitioned the Supreme Court to stop the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC), National Transmission Corp. (Transco), National Renewable Energy Board (NREB) and Manila Electric Co. (Meralco) from collecting from us consumers P0.406 per kWh we use to support companies building --or promising to build -- wind, biomass, solar and hydro-electric facilities.

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