EPIRA
Stop power privatization, democratize the power sector—IBON
October 17, 2026
An integrated national power development plan should link the power sector to national industrialization.
Marcos opts for easy power relief over real electricity reform—IBON
September 17, 2026
Genuinely bringing down electricity costs requires deeper structural reforms.
EPIRA@25: Power reform failure
July 29, 2026
Twenty-five years after EPIRA’s enactment, the country’s experience points to the need for a fundamentally different approach to the power sector.
EPIRA has delivered profits for a few, not affordable power to Filipinos
July 3, 2026
EPIRA has failed to make electricity affordable, and instead created possibly the region’s most expensive power system, while enriching a few.
Watt a burden
April 26, 2026
What is the government doing? Despite President Marcos Jr’s Executive Order 110 declaring a “state of national energy emergency”, on March 24, it’s business as usual for oil, energy, and electricity firms. The government, meanwhile, just continues with the 12% value-added tax on electricity, adding to the burden of the majority who are already financially struggling, while power firms profit from the crisis.
EPIRA beyond reform
February 28, 2025
COMMENTARY
The lament borders on cliché – the Philippines has among the highest electricity costs in the region.
IBON Facts & Figures: “Alternative to Power Privatization” [Excerpt]
April 18, 2019
Amid power interruptions because of combined forced power outages due to maintainance and various power plants’ system problems, we share the introduction of the December 2014 IBON Facts & Figures issue titled “Alternative to Power Privatization”: “When the Philippine government privatized the electric power sector in 2001, it promised cheaper and sustainable supply of energy […]
Deregulating rates and privatizing power through EPIRA
February 12, 2019
