Fed-up consumers take over the energy market

Fed-up consumers take over the energy market

For decades, the relationship between Filipino consumers and their electricity providers was entirely one-sided. If you lived in Metro Manila, you paid whatever the Manila Electric Co. (Meralco) billed you. If the summer heat strained the power plants feeding the high-voltage lines of the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP), you sat in the dark and waited. There were no alternatives, no negotiations, and no escape from seasonal b…