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LK2018 @Letranknight2015 (52665) • Philippines 13 Aug 22

There was a line maintenance with the power company a last week. That night they were half a dozen trucks and line men on the road. But after 30 minutes, they left, only this truck remained so I took a picture of it. The next...

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Bribe away from disconnection

LK2018 @Letranknight2015 (52665) • Philippines 2 Sep 19

Almost fainted this morning when the utility guy came to visit us and scheduled to have our electricity cut. I can't believe they can be so on time, they maybe getting huge tips. My funds wasn't enough, gladly mom to the rescue...

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But we pay on TIME!

LK2018 @Letranknight2015 (52665) • Philippines 5 Oct 16

I just can't believe we have yet again receive another notice from the Electric company, but this time it was a confirmation about us getting disconnected. Money won't come until the weekend, why can't they just wait...

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Prepaid Electricity???

ofzhernandez @ofzhernandez (278) • Philippines 5 Nov 12

What happened to the government of the Philippines? They implement the "Prepaid Electricity"? What about that!! Is that really taking effect next year? How come that people in the government think of doing such thing to the people...

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prepaid or postpaid electricity

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Philippines has world's highest power rates

romzee @romzee (937) • Philippines 16 Oct 12

TUCP Party-list Rep. Raymond Mendoza showed the Manila Electric Company (MERALCO) residential rates hit an all-time high of P13.66 per Kilowatt hour (kWh) beginning August, at a dollar equivalent of US$.33 per kWh, the highest in...

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Annoying electric bills.

lynpreety @lynboobsy11 (11343) • Philippines 21 Aug 12

I don't know who's to blame on this, the electric meter reader or the electric company we have here in my area. I got my bills yesterday that made me shock, my normal consume increase for about 30%...

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Local Electric Crew's Midnight Maintenance

LetranKnight25 @LetranKnight25 (33117) • Philippines 11 Jun 12

Hello Lotters, What a Night, it's unbelievable that Meralco had to this surprisingly or wasn't I aware of their maintenance schedule? Last night I heard a generator sound from the outside. i didn't bother myself with it...

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technicians

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Dangerous power lines

freymind @freymind (1351) • Philippines 5 May 11

In this country a lot of people are suffering from immense poverty and are having a hard time keeping food on the table but still survives. But people as history dictates have always been wary of the dark and are compelled to seek...

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What kind of Meralco Meter do you have?

LetranKnight25 @LetranKnight25 (33117) • Philippines 25 Apr 11

Hello Lotters, I just wanted to say how happy I am that our Electric Meter here had finally been changed. after years of paying relentless and injustice expense because of a faulty meter that we had for years since...

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Things to do when you dont have electricity/power

fedmich @fedmich (97) • Philippines 3 Aug 10

We here in the Philippines just had some typhoon problems last month and we had power interruptions for upto 5 days. so we are wondering what you guys think of your list will be if you have no power too for such long days. Our...

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12 hours of Black OUT! >:-)

LetranKnight25 @LetranKnight25 (33117) • Philippines 14 Jul 10

Hello Lotters, Yup, Power just got back on time. well, I wasn't in the mood to continue mylotting last night i decided to sleep early, until this rain started pouring and some how it gotten stronger ang stronger. I went...

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Local Electric Company used to have brownout and charge a higher bill

jamed28 @jamed28 (1903) • Philippines 19 Jun 10

I leave in the eastern part of Laguna, and in this place we are not covered by Meralco. We have a local Electric Company here named, FLECO, that is supplying us with electricity. But this company has the worst service that I'd...

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What Can We Do About The Sudden Increase In Our Meralco Bill?

ajarvaise @ajarvaise (453) • Philippines 3 May 10

In the midst of the chaos and freaking out regarding the sudden increase in our Meralco bills, I was thinking of ways where we can save electricity so that we can lessen the bill next month. Imagine, there are only 3 persons in...

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Seeing my Meralco Bill was a WTF moment

evepin @evepin (721) • Philippines 28 Apr 10

Oh my goodness, I just saw our Meralco bill and i truly had a major WTF moment. Imagine, they have increased their rates last March already from Feb's rate, then now again???? I had the same consumption level last March, but I am...

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utility bills

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Meralco ruined my day!

sharlionse @sharlionse (739) • Philippines 23 Apr 10

Upon waking up this morning I was having coffee in our living room when our landlady handed me our Meralco bill for the month of April. My housemate who was outside was laughing when our landlady said we have a very high bill. She...

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Another Electric Shock!!! No! Not Again!

eichs1 @eichs1 (1934) • Philippines 23 Apr 09

I really can't take this anymore. Next month (May), the Manila Electric Co. (Meralco) can raise their rates by 25 centavos to P1.22 per kilowatthour (kWh). This was already approved by the Energy Regulatory...

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What measures are you taking to save on your electrcity bill?

natsvelascotan @natsvelascotan (665) • Philippines 6 Nov 08

We recently bought this electricity saving device at ACE Hardware. Don't know if it will actually help. We also do our best to minimize the use of our aircon, except when their visitors, and take out the plug from outlets that...

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where is justice when you need her?

ayenacsi @ayenacsi (910) • Philippines 10 Sep 08

The news bombarded us Filipinos of the CA justices axed, suspended and reprimanded because of the highly controversial case of the GSIS vs. Meralco. An investigative panel that was formed to investigate the alleged bribery...

another increase in our electric bills..

kaezy_kulet @kaezy_kulet (2465) • Philippines 6 Aug 08

If you will still remember i have posted a discussion here about the refund that Meralco should have given it's users as well as NAPOCOR customers..they haven't even followed what the ERC has ordered and now Meralco is increasing...

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now this is what i call refund..

kaezy_kulet @kaezy_kulet (2465) • Philippines 30 Jun 08

10 billion pesos refund in the making..Our electric charges will decrease once the NAPOCOR returns all our excess payments which they think amounts to 10 billion pesos says the ERC..the ERC have said that NAPOCOR should...

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refund

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