With the support from presidential son and Ilocos Rep. Ferdinand Alexander Marcos, businessmen from Davao can now heave a sigh of relief for their problems associated with the high electricity rates, compounded by frequent power outages and poor service they get from an electric service cooperative, that of Northern Davao Electric Cooperative.
Nograles’ bill exposes the huge disparity between what the electric service cooperatives charge against those obtaining in the franchise areas of private utility firms. In the case of Nordeco’s franchise, the electricity rate is P14 per kilowatt-hour against P8.50 from that of Davao Light and Power Company. And the fact that Nordeco-serviced residents are just a stone’s throw away from that of Davao Light’s is an unmistakable reality.
“Despite our constant clamor for better power service from Nordeco, we feel like it has continued to fall on deaf ears.