Consumers stand to suffer from soaring electricity rates should the Department of Energy's (DoE) proposed strategy of 100-percent firm contracting for ancillary services (AS) prevail, according to the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP).

The DoE has been reiterating the dispatch of ancillary services as a response to thin operating margins and possible load dropping in the Luzon grid at various points this year due to multiple power plants on extended outage.

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