Electricity in the Philipines is the most expensive in Asia

Nuclear Power Plants are the cheapest source of electricity, which the Phil have but did not use. Geothermal Power Plants have very high maintenance cost while Hydro Power Plants are very expensive to build as it covers villages with water. Solar and wind energy is also very expensive, and what's worse is that it does not produce a lot of electricity. Prices in electricity will be difficult to lower down unless a Nuclear power plant gets up and running.

Electricity (and everything else) is quite expensive here in Finland (as well as other things such as food) even compared to other European countries (the most advanced ones). That would be fine if our pay checks were that much bigger as well, but no! We actually get paid less than what people usually do in "advanced countries of Europe". I guess we Finnish people are destined to be poor for all our lives About that electricity cost: I have no idea about things as complicated as that; conspiracy theory and stuff (I still think all lamps such as in public toilets have hidden cameras). Hey! I got an idea! You will just have to write A LOT more on myLot in order to make huge amounts of money and then use it to pay your electricity bill

You are right. Electricity is being monopolized by big companies in their own territories or provinces. Should a number of companies offer electricity too , the rate will definitely decrease. But as it is, we have no choice but to patronize their electricity because there are no other ones who can offer it too. Really sad situation for us Filipinos.

I guess electronic companies always have a reason or claim on why they should raise the prices of electricity, mostly it's to regain their profits. However, I recently remembered that NAPOCOR once boasted that it can provide cheaper electricity comapred to MERALCO, when the latter was besieged by the public due to its high rates. Guess NAPOCOR too is raising their rates. I always contemplate whenever there are brown outs in our area that we pay for the service in full, that is on the occasion that they provide electricity or not. It is somewhat a losing situation, companies can provide measly service with charge and in this situation, added charge becuase the company isn't profiting. It's such a shame. Electricity, in our time, is indispensable. A lot of what we use everyday does depend on electricity. And no electricity can paralyze operations. I hope companies would, for one day, think of their consumers and evaluate themselves if they were just in their treatment.

Our power is expensive because we are still relying on petroleum as our source of electricity unlike the other countries are using the most available source like solar, wind, wave and nuclear energy. If our government use another alternative form of energy then our bills will become cheaper.

Generating electricity here is expensive as our raw materials have to be exported. We still rely heavily on coal which as of the moment the government favors as the most efficient source. I think there is no long term plan to address this problem with power shortage. I hope something will come out of this. The government has not presented any alternative to wean us from traditional sources which are destructive to the environment. They are still depending much on the private sector to make the first move in harnessing clean energy.

I really feel that the government should do something about it fast. They have to have their plans on it's way to catch up with the rising prices of basic commodities. I know I heard in Pnoy's State Of the Nation Address that there are plans of investing on more geothermal plants.

Hello Louievill, That's because we have Low energy productivity, remember we still depend on Coal, and hydro power most of the time. I was shocked to find out that we are still using coal after all these years and we never took care of our plan to establish a Nuclear Power Plant. yes, we paid for something that never use and that's really sick. I think energy saving is still the best there sadly we can't save as much because one of the renters is also sharing electricity with us that's we still have 100$ worth of bills every month

Hello louievill, I think you cannot compare with a country with nuclear power plants like Japan : they produce apparently cheap electricity, but the price will increase soon, as nuclear combustible will disappear during this century. I know that Philippines has invested in some "green" power plants producing electricity with geothermal energy, and it is great. Electricity and gas are increasing everywhere and I think we have to reduce our bill by using material needing less power : using a laptop instead of a desktop, by example. Phone and electricity were state monopolies in my country. When they have been privatized, we had really interesting offers for phone, but not for electricity : family consumers don't interest private electric companies...

It's really alarming and in the coming month, it will take another increase in electricity bill. We can't go to grocery to shop cause of this high electricity bill. If only Bataan power plant was run, we may not have electricity bill as high as this but after what happened to Japan power plant, it's scary though!

I think we are not resourceful enough to save energy in our country that is why we have the most expensive electricity in Asia. If we look at it, our country is bless with all the forms of energy. From the solar, geothermal, hydro, wind and etc, we all have these. The problem is we are not capable enough to utilize these forms of energy for our consumption. We try to rely on others to generate our electricity which is where the cost come from. If only we are brave enough to change the way how we produce electricity then I think that costs will eventually goes down. There is a monopoly going on in this country. They always say that there is an increase in this and that but if you try to scrutinize those things that they are presenting to us it is not that valid. Because, we don't have to rely on those things that they say in order to produce electricity. For example is the solar panel. The installation and the panels cost expensive but if you look at it in the long run, you can save a lot of money just by using it. You can be independent on the electric provider that asks for high rates of service. We can also have the way on how we design the house which we build. We can make a design in such a way that we can utilize the flow of the air in the surroundings. By doing so, we have a continuous natural air conditioner which we don't have to pay since its natural. There are lot of ways on how to be efficient in saving energy and making use of what we have to lessen that burden of high electric bills in our country.

hmmm...Oh my goodness! does that mean i will have to send more money to my family in the Philippines? hope not. hehehe... nah...didn't hear this from my friends. that is ridiculous! More Filipinos will suffer especially knowing that there are not many people who have work there.

That's true. That is the long time ago problem in our place here in Mindanao. We even pay for the loss of their system and their rate is expensive. Lots of investor will surely be disappointed in this matter. This is one of the problem of the president so the president must act on this immediately instead of focusing more on previous administration mistake. This will help much not only to the business sector but also all the people who uses electricity. The government should take or invest in greener way of acquiring electricity because it will help a lot in the future.

Hi louievill! That is an interesting factoid. I don't think that it will scare off investors though. I am not that knowledgeable when it comes to investment matters but judging from the exchange rate alone, their notes cost a lot higher than the Philippine Peso so our electricity costs are the least of their concerns. I am not a fan or supporter of PNoy. I don't think though that there is a conspiracy under the high electricity rates.

I am not so sure exactly what I've heard in the past (as I am out of the country most of the time) NAPOCOR has big debt to.....I don't know who....and this debt they are charging to the consumers.....also, in other countries, electricity and water distribution is operated by the government not by the private sector....unfortunately we are filipinos and we have to suffer all of these stuff....I gave up hoping for a better life in that country :(

Well in my country Dominican Republic is very exensive too, but the problem is that we pay for a service that they don't give , they give like ten hours of blackouts and the cover like if they would be giving the right service, here in US is expensive too but at least they give the service.