Meralco chair Pangilinan: Power industry ‘may not survive’ if asked to absorb system loss
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The warning comes from the chairman of Meralco — the distribution giant that posted a record P50.6 billion in core profit in 2025 — who says forcing the power industry to absorb system loss costs could run into tens of billions of pesos
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