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The Central Negros Electric Cooperative residential rate for October 2022 is P15.4337/kwh, a decrease of P0.2648/kWh, from last month’s rate of P15.6985/kWh, Ervin Stan Leo Ticar, CENECO acting general manager, said Tuesday, October 18.The P0.2648/kWh rate decrease was due to the net reduction in generation, transmission and system loss charges due to the availment of a fuel discount from one of CENECO’s power suppliers as well as a decrease in the FIT (feed-in tariff)-All rate, lifeline and senior citizen subsidies, Generation Rate Adjustment Mechanism (GRAM), Incremental Currency Exchange Rate Adjustment (ICERA) and Value Added Tax, a press release from the cooperative said.The pass-through charges equivalent to P14.2471/kWh of the total power rate includes the Generation and Tra...

The Department of Agriculture (DA), in coordination with the Sugar Regulatory Administration (SRA), will start selling sugar at P70 per kilo at the SRA Quezon City and Bacolod City offices.The Kadiwa rolling stores and Kadiwa on Wheels will also be selling sugar at the same price to make sugar affordable and accessible to consumers, a DA press release said.Sugar sold by DA-SRA through the Kadiwa stores are intended for direct consumers and are not for resale.Consistent with government’s commitment to make basic commodity affordable to the common Filipino people, the DA-SRA has asked each importer under the Sugar Importation Policy for Crop Year 2022-2023 to commit ten percent of their imported sugar allocation to be sold, through DA and at P70 per kilo in order to have ample su...