{"id":5201,"date":"2016-03-15T15:31:56","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T07:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=5201"},"modified":"2016-03-15T15:31:56","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T07:31:56","slug":"meralco-to-lower-power-rates-this-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2016\/03\/15\/meralco-to-lower-power-rates-this-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Meralco to lower power rates this month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Summer is just around the corner, and as the temperature rises, the more electricity is consumed to beat of the heat! And it doesn\u2019t help if it costs a fortune.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5202\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/03\/meralco-121013.jpg\" alt=\"meralco-121013\" width=\"620\" height=\"370\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Luckily, the Manila Electric Company (Meralco) has recently announced that consumers might see lower electric bills this month due slightly lower fuel cost and a higher\u00a0 dispatch of power plants. The overall rate for their residential customer is expected to go down by P0.19 per kilowatt-hour (kWh), as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philstar.com\/headlines\/2016\/03\/10\/1561503\/lower-power-rates-expected-month\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> by <em>The Philippines Star<\/em>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The bills will be reduced by P38 for households consuming 200 kWh, P57 for 300kWk, 76 for 400 kWh and 95 for 500 kWh, while the month\u2019s overall rate of P8.63 per kWh is lower by P1.79 as compared to March 2015\u2019s P10.42 per kWh. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Indeed, it&#8217;s a\u00a0 good news to welcome the summer! However, consumer must still be wary of your use of electricity as the Philippines is experiencing El Ni\u00f1o. And, as the demand for power increases, the supply might not be enough to shoulder it which might cause to a sudden change on prices.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3781\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2015\/11\/border3.png\" alt=\"border3\" width=\"850\" height=\"5\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2015\/11\/border3.png 850w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2015\/11\/border3-300x2.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/sg.news.yahoo.com\/lower-power-rates-expected-month-000000572.html?nhp=1\">sg.news.yahoo.com<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.serdef.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/meralco-121013.jpg\">serdef.org<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summer is just around the corner, and as the temperature rises, the more electricity is consumed to beat of the heat! And it doesn\u2019t help if it costs a fortune. \u00a0 \u00a0 Luckily, the Manila Electric Company (Meralco) has recently announced that consumers might see lower electric bills this month due slightly lower fuel cost and a higher\u00a0 dispatch of power plants. The overall rate for their residential customer is expected to go down by P0.19 per kilowatt-hour (kWh), as reported by The Philippines Star. The bills will be reduced by P38 for households consuming 200 kWh, P57 for 300kWk, 76 for 400 kWh and 95 for 500 kWh, while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-current-events"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/03\/meralco-121013-e1458026861985.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5203,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5201\/revisions\/5203"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}