THE Department of Energy (DoE) has asked the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) to act on Manila Electric Co.’s (Meralco) permit to operate the 455-megawatt (MW) power plant in Mauban, Quezon to boost the country’s power supply.

“I wrote [a letter to the] ERC and I manifested to ERC the importance of it being online because that supply is necessary to augment the present supply of the country,” Energy Secretary Alfonso Cusi said on the sidelines of a media forum in Manila.

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