I say bastardized because, just as with many good ideas the country borrows from elsewhere, the Philippines has managed to make a complete mess of it. In the US, where this particular idea started, electric co-ops have been fantastically successful for nearly a century. Here, they are largely irrelevant and ineffective, and most actually exist illegally.
The existence of the NEA is one reason electric cooperatives do not function as well as they should. For one thing, under the 1987 Constitution, all cooperatives — no exception is made for electric cooperatives — are to fall under the jurisdiction of the Cooperative Development Authority , a fact that the CDA routinely points out, sometimes in bitter terms .
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