Baguio, Benguet power charges down -- Beneco

 BAGUIO CITY – The Benguet Electric Cooperative’s monthly rate for December has decreased compared to last month -- a timely Christmas gift to member-consumer-owners.
    From P10.4744 per kilowatt hour residential rate in November, Beneco's residential rate for December dropped to P10.4698/kwh or P0.0046/kwh less than previous billing rate.
    Beneco general manager engineer Melchor Licoben said among factors that caused drop in power rates were decrease in generation and systems loss charges and temporary suspension of feed-in tariff allowance for the next three months.
    Beneco's current systems loss charge of P0.7076/kwh is P0.0167/kwh lower compared to the November systems loss charge of P0.7243/kwh.
    The P0.0364/kwh feed-in tariff was also temporarily suspended starting in December.
    Beneco's commercial high voltage rate of P8.1702/kwh this December was P0.0455/kwh lower than November's P8.2157/kwh rate.
    For public building high voltage charges, Beneco's December rate of P8.1424/kwh was P0.0455/kwh lower compared to last month's P8.1879/kwh.

But commercial low voltage, industrial, public building low voltage and streetlight charges increased in  December billing period compared to charges last month.

For commercial low voltage charge, the December rate of P9.7622/kwh was higher by P0.0110/kwh compared to the P9.7511/kwh in November.