(1st UPDATE) The Energy Regulatory Commission says the Ombudsman’s decision will ‘ensure the stability within the agency and the energy industry as a whole’
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MANILA, Philippines – Malacañang has reinstated Monalisa Dimalanta as head of the Energy Regulatory Commission . The ERC said in a statement on Thursday, October 31, that according to the Ombudsman, “the ground which justifies the continued imposition of preventive suspension no longer exists. Therefore, the preventive suspension is no longer necessary.”
Martires had acted on a 2023 case filed by consumer group National Association of Electricity Consumers for Reforms Incorporated. The group alleged that Dimalanta failed to recalculate Meralco rates “that protect the interests of the public.” The ERC chief, in response, said the Meralco case had beenBefore Dimalanta’s reinstatement, Malacañang appointed Justice Undersecretary Jesse Hermogenes Andres as officer-in-charge and chief executive officer of the ERC.
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