EPIRA has delivered profits for a few, not affordable power to Filipinos

Hulyo 3, 2026

EPIRA has failed to make electricity affordable, and instead created possibly the region’s most expensive power system, while enriching a few.

Deregulating rates and privatizing power through EPIRA

Pebrero 12, 2019

A challenge to reverse power privatization

Hunyo 16, 2017

In 2001, the Electric Power Industry Reform Act (EPIRA) was enacted with the promise of delivering affordable and reliable electricity to the country. Sixteen years later, electricity remains expensive and unreliable, and electric power industry monopoly has intensified, further enriching big firms. The following points elaborate on why the Duterte administration should all the more […]