PECO requests reinstatement of CPCN

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Panay Electric Co. (PECO) is seeking for the reinstatement of its provisional certificate of public convenience and necessity (CPCN) so it can go back to serve as Iloilo city’s power distribution utility (DU).

Corresponding to its supplemental motion filed at the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC), PECO pleaded for the revocation of the provisional authority (PA) granted to MORE Power which has since take over as DU of the city,

PECO cited MORE’s alleged lack of technical competence to operate a power distribution system and network; its violations of the Philippine Distribution Code and the Magna Carta for Residential Electricity Consumers; and its submission of unperfected contract on its claimed power supply agreements with a power supplier.

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PECO said it was denied due process in the revocation of its provisional CPCN and the subsequent issuance of PA to MORE Power because it has not been furnished with the March 3 and 4, 2020 ocular inspection report of the ERC team that became the basis for MORE’s takeover of the substations and power distribution assets in Iloilo.

“…We could not be furnished a copy of the inspection report… This is a blatant denial of PECO’s right to due process. We were not offered the opportunity to comment,” Estrella Elamparo, PECO’s legal counsel, said in a statement.

Elamparo said PECO repeatedly requested a copy of the inspection report since providing them a copy is not only a necessary component of due process, it is also in keeping with the prescriptions of Rule 15, Section 4 of the ERC Rules.

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