Activist priest to Marcos: Stand firm on scrapping system loss charges

LUCENA CITY — An activist priest in Quezon province urged President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to stand by his promise to remove the controversial system loss charges from electricity bills and not yield to pressure from power industry players opposing the proposal. “Millions of Filipinos bear the burden of exorbitant electr

The warning comes from the chairman of Meralco — the distribution giant that posted a record P50.6 billion in core profit in 2025 — who says forcing the power industry to absorb system loss costs could run into tens of billions of pesos