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Promote
competition, encourage market development, ensure customer choice and penalize
abuse of market power in the electricity industry. To carry out this undertaking,
ERC shall, promulgate necessary rules and regulations, including Competition
Rules, and impose fines or penalties for any non-compliance with or breach
of the EPIRA, the Implementing Rules and Regulations of the EPIRA, and other
rules and regulations which it promulgates or administers as well as other
laws it is tasked to implement/enforce.
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Determine,
fix and approve, after due notice and hearing, Transmission and Distribution
Wheeling Charges, and Retail Rates through an ERC established and enforced
rate-setting methodology that will promote efficiency and non-discrimination.
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Approve
applications for, issue, grant, revoke, review and modify Certificate of
Public Convenience and Necessity (CPCN), Certificate of Compliance (COC),
as well as licenses and/or permits of electric industry participants.
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Promulgate
and enforce a national Grid Code and a Distribution Code that shall include
performance standards and the minimum financial capability standards and
other terms and conditions for access to and use of the transmission and
distribution facilities.
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Enforce the rules and regulations governing the operations of the Wholesale
Electricity Spot Market (WESM) and the activities of the WESM operator and
other WESM participants, for the purpose of ensuring greater supply and
rational pricing of electricity.
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Ensure
that NPC and distribution utilities functionally and structurally unbundle
their respective business activities and rates; determine the level of cross
subsidies in the existing retail rates until the same is removed and thereafter,
ensure that the charges of Transco or any distribution utility bear no cross
subsidies between grids, within grids, or between classes of customers,
except as provided by law.
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Set
a Lifeline Rate for the Marginalized End-Users.
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Promulgate
rules and regulations prescribing the qualifications of Suppliers which
shall include, among other things, their technical and financial capability
and credit worthiness.
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Determine
the electricity End-users comprising the Contestable and Captive Markets.
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Verify
the reasonable amounts and determine the manner and duration for the full
recovery of stranded debts and stranded contract costs of NPC and the distribution
utilities.
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Handle consumer complaints and ensure promotion of consumer interests.
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Act
on applications for cost recovery and return on Demand-Side Management (DSM)
projects.
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Fix
user fees to be charged by Transco for ancillary services to all electric
power industry participants or self-generating entities connected to the
Grid.
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Review
power purchase contracts between IPPs and NPC, including the distribution
utilities.
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Monitor
and take measures to discourage/penalize abuse of market power, cartelization
and any anti-competitive or discriminatory behavior by any electric power
industry participant.
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Review
and approve the terms and conditions of service of the Transco or any distribution
utility and any changes therein.
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Determine,
fix and approve a universal charge to be imposed on all electricity end-users.
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Test,
calibrate and seal electric watt-hour meters.
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Implement
pertinent provisions of R.A. No. 7832 or the Anti-Pilferage of Electricity
Law.
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Fix
and regulate the rate schedule or prices of piped gas to be charged by duly
franchised gas companies which distribute gas by means of underground pipe
system.