A resolution requesting the Energy Regulatory Commission for the legal basis of the increase in power rates by the Central Negros Electric Cooperative, was approved by the Bacolod Sangguniang Panlungsod Wednesday.
Authored by Councilor Archie Baribar, the resolution said CENECO has posted the following rates per kilowatt hour - P3.8139 for February 2011; P3.5320 for March 2011; P4.4236 for April and P4.1089 for May 2011. The increase from March 2011 to April 2011 is 0.8916 centavos per kwh while the increase of rates in May 2011 from the March level is 0.5769 centavos, it said. These sudden increases have affected not only the lives of ordinary consumers of Bacolod City, but also all businesses within its service area, it added. Significant increases in rates can only be implemented with the approval of the ERB Commission, the resolution said. The SP urgently requests the ERB for the legal basis of the increase in power rates by CENECO, it said, and should there be none, for an Order to be issued prohibiting CENECO from imposing any rate increase and collecting the same. Meanwhile, the SP approved Wednesday on third and final reading an Ordinance declaring the existing canteen at the government center and all those canteens to be operated by the city government as socio economic enterprise units. This is because they generate revenues that will support the city, Distrito said. The Ordinance was authored by Councilor Caesar Distrito and co-authored by Councilors Em Legaspi-Ang and Al Victor Espino. Distrito, Ang, Councilors Homer Bais, Mona Dia Jardin and El Cid Familiaran voted for its approval, while Councilors Sonya Verdeflor and Elmer Sy abstained, and Councilor Archie Baribar was not in favor of its passage. It also provides for the creation of a Canteen Committee that will supervise the canteens in the government center and all those to be operated by the city, Distrito said.*CGS Visayan Daily Star
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