Meralco announced rates inched up to ₱8.9951 per kilowatt hour (kWh) for the month from ₱8.8901 per kWh in March. The overall resulting tariff to be passed on in this billing cycle will be at P8.4911 per kwh versus last month’s P8.6966 per kwh.
CNN and the CNN logo are registered marks of Cable News Network, Inc., displayed with permission. Meralco announced rates inched up to ₱8.9951 per kilowatt hour (kWh) for the month from This translates to a roughly ₱21 increase in the total bill of a typical household consuming 200 kWh a month.ADVISORY: Meralco electricity rate up by ₱0.1050 per kWh in April. ADVISORY: Meralco electricity rate down by ₱0.24 per kWh in May. This means that Meralco possibly padded 0.67 centavos per kWH, according to Bayan Muna. How to Compute Your Electricity Consumption . ELECTRICITY rates will go down by P0.2055 per kilowatt hour (kWh) this month, the Manila Electric Co. said on Monday. This means a typical household consuming 200 kWh a month will have a decrease of around ₱50 in the total bill for May The power distributor attributed the downward rate adjustment to its invocation of the force majeure provision in its Power Supply Agreements, as it saw a "very significant reduction in power demand in its service area" during the enhanced community quarantine. Meralco said rates dropped to ₱8.7468 per kilowatt hour this month, ₱0.2483 per kWh less than The decrease means a typical household consuming 200 kWh per month will be paying around ₱50 less in its electric bill.ADVISORY: Meralco electricity rate down by ₱0.24 per kWh in May. Meralco also wrote customized letters to consumers explaining their May bills based on actual meter readings. The resulting kWh may not match the actual kWh reflected on your next Meralco bill (as Meralco’s meter reading date may be different from yours), but it at least gives you an estimate of your monthly power consumption. The customers of Manila Electric Company (Meralco) will experience a slight relief as the utility firm’s rates will be down by P0.2055 per kilowatt hour (kwh) in this August billing. The company seemed to have over-recovered its distribution, supply, and metering (DSM) revenues by almost half last year, billing these to customers at P2.05/kWh, compared with the ERC-approved rate of P1.38/kWh. Instagram photo by @uevolicious. Many different factors affect electricity prices, and they change from time to time. “With five straight months of generation rate reduction, and a total rate decrease of more than one peso per kWh since the start of the year, this month’s overall rate is significantly lower than that of August 2019, which was P9.5674 per kWh,” Meralco said in a statement.