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.

A history of power rate hikes and price rigging

February 12, 2019

Deregulating rates and privatizing power through EPIRA

February 12, 2019