ERC to host Luzon DU ConCon in Baguio and Tagaytay
The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) will be holding the first consultative conference for distribution utilities (DUs) serving electricity consumers in Luzon. Dubbed as NLuzConCon, the northern Luzon meeting will take place in Baguio City on January 26-27, 2006 at Hotel Supreme. DUs in southern Luzon, on the other hand, will have its SLuzConCon on February 2-3, 2006 at the Days Hotel in Tagaytay City.
“The ERC values the inputs and concerns of the DUs that affect their operations and corporate well-being,” ERC Chairman Rodolfo B. Albano, Jr. said. “The DUs are strategic partners of the ERC in the pursuit of regulatory reforms that will not only make the environment in the electric power industry of the country competitive and responsive to the needs of the electricity consumers but will also send a positive signal to investors of stable regulatory policies and directions that will encourage them to invest in the Philippines,” he added.
These are the third and fourth of a series of conferences that the ERC is undertaking with the DUs to increase their understanding of the regulatory reforms being done by the energy regulatory body to attain the restructuring goals of the Electric Power Industry Reform Act (EPIRA). The first and second confabs were held in Mindanao and Visayas, respectively, during the second semester of 2005.
The General Manager and two other members of the management team of a DU operating in Regions I, II, III and the Cordillera Autonomous Region (CAR) are invited to attend the NLuzConCon. DUs in Regions 4, 5 and the National Capital Region (NCR), on the other hand, are invited to attend the SLuzConCon.
Topping the agenda of the conference are ERC’s 10-Point Regulatory Agenda, the Time-Of-Use Rates/Billing, Technical Regulation Reforms, Streamlining of Hearings, Transition Supply Contract, Market Reforms, Economic Regulation Reforms and Customer Service Reforms.
“The ERC would like to extend its gratitude to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) for its valuable support to make these consultative conferences possible through its Energy Clean Air Project (ECAP),” Chairman Albano concluded.
January 23, 2006