Nakararaming Pinoy, nagpapakabit ng aircon dahil sa init ng panahon; Meralco, may pagtaas sa...

Nakararaming Pinoy, nagpapakabit ng aircon dahil sa init ng panahon; Meralco, may pagtaas sa singil ng kuryente

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00:00 Next, the high demand for electricity is being pushed by Miralco,

00:04 which is saying that they have additional demand to be fulfilled this month.

00:09 This is what surprised Claycel Partilia.

00:11 Ed put his house in Quezon City with three new air conditioners

00:18 to withstand the extreme heat.

00:20 It's hard to get sick, the hospital is expensive.

00:23 -Compared to? -Compared to the air conditioner.

00:27 You'll save yourself, you won't have a problem, you'll still get sick.

00:30 Before, we used to use the air conditioner before we go to sleep,

00:34 around 8am, until we wake up, around 7am.

00:40 But now, sometimes, we open at 2pm, until the next day, until the next morning.

00:46 According to a consumer financial firm,

00:49 they sold more than 1,000 units of air conditioner every day

00:53 in the middle of March.

00:56 According to Miralco, this is enough if the demand for electricity

01:02 is recorded high this April.

01:04 There's a connection, Alvin.

01:06 It only goes to show us that consumers opt to utilize cooling devices,

01:13 especially air conditioning units.

01:16 1,000 air conditioning units sold per day,

01:21 I would think is unprecedented.

01:24 In the, perhaps, history of the summer season.

01:29 The generation charge continued to rise,

01:32 pushing the increase of almost 50 centimes per kilowatt hour this month of May.

01:38 Added to that, it's 92 to 231 pesos per bill for those using 200 to 500 kilowatts.

01:47 The average demand increased by 2,400 megawatts.

01:52 We had a series of yellow alerts and red alert status.

01:58 So that's basically what pushed the increase in the generation charge.

02:07 The demand for WESEM increased by 1 peso and 79 centimes per kilowatt hour

02:17 due to the supply situation last April.

02:21 Although the suspension of wholesale electricity spot market

02:26 to lower the price of electricity is a big help,

02:29 the power grid in Luzon and Visayas will be put on a red alert.

02:33 This doesn't directly imply that the price of electricity will drop next month.

02:39 Every time demand increases,

02:44 and there is a challenge in so far as the supply is concerned,

02:48 we can expect prices to really be pressured to go up.

02:52 That's why my advice is to be careful when using electricity.

02:56 Kelai zalpar, Delia, for Pambansang TV in Bagong, Philippines.