LIKE Central Negros Electric Cooperative (Ceneco), the implementation of additional feed-in-tariff allowance (FIT-All) has also driven up power rates of Northern Negros Electric Cooperative (Noneco) and Negros Occidental Electric Cooperative (Noceco) this month.
Noneco, catering to electric consumers in the northern portion of the province, from E.B. Magalona to San Carlos City, is implementing an increase of about P0.13 per kilowatt hour (kWh) for June.
From P11.6564 per kWh in May, it went up to P11.7876 per kWh this month.
Paulino Almedelia, corporate planning head of Noneco, said the upward adjustment in the cooperative's power rate is attributed to the implementation of new FIT rate.
The distribution utility, he said, has incurred an additional FIT-All of P0.0733 per kWh.
Aside from which, there is also an increase in transmission charge of P0.0866 per kWh.
Though generation charge has decreased by P.0330 per kWh, Almedelia added.
Catering to consumers in the southern portion of Negros Occidental, Noceco is also implementing an increase in power rate of about P0.16 per kWh.
Though it has yet to release the actual computation today, its general manager Jon Discaya said the additional FIT-All fee is also contributing to the increase.
Other factors include higher transmission and universal charges, Discaya added.
Ceneco, catering to the largest number of consumers in the province, earlier announced an increase of about P0.52 per kWh on its power rate for June.
Aside from the additional FIT-All of about P0.07 per kWh, the upward movement has also resulted from increases in various charges including generation and transmission, and adjustments for recoveries of different generation utilities from which Ceneco is contracting its power supply.
Engineer Leomel Tambanillo, corporate planning division manager of Ceneco, earlier told SunStar Bacolod that the additional FIT-All is ordered by the National Transmission Commission to encourage renewable energy generation in the country.
The cooperative, meanwhile, covers cities of Bacolod, Bago, Talisay and Silay, and towns of Murcia and Salvador Benedicto.