14/10/2025
"Both NPPs and QTPs are entitled to subsidies from the Missionary Electrification Fund. In 2022, they received P16.4 billion from said fund. In 2023, they obtained P13.7 billion; and in 2024, P12.6 billion. In summary, a total of P42.7 billion in three years.
According to the DoE, as of December 2024 the dependable capacity of these operational NPPs and QTPS amounted to 404 MW. Simple math tells us that in 2024, these private sector businesses obtained subsidies of an average P31 million per MW of dependable capacity.
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Who own these NPPs and QTPs?
Unfortunately, some of them are also caught up in the DPWH scandal: Sunwest of Congressman Zaldy Co, in Romblon and Masbate, and the Villar power companies in Cebu and Siquijor (the latter was recently forced by the DoE to close down)."
Maitet Diokno is the Executive Director of CPII.
Most isolated electric cooperatives, because they are small and unable to connect to the transmission grids, face a more expensive cost of generating the electricity they distribute to their consumers
