Pursuant to Republic Act No. 9994 entitled, “An Act Granting Additional Benefits and Privileges to Senior Citizens, the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) hereby adopts and promulgates these rules to establish a process for a revenue neutral implementation of the Senior Citizen Discount and Subsidy Rates by electricity Distribution Utilities (DUs).

Cotabato Light as an electric utility will implement soon the law on Senior Citizen discount for electricity bill.  Sometime this January, 2011 the implementing rules and regulations (IRR) was published, and this new law will take effect fifteen (15) days after its publication.

A brand new year and yet the goal to bring down systems loss even lower remains a big challenge. Having set that goal in mind, the Cotabato Light team braces on for the ride of their lives as threats and opportunities will surely sprout along the way. But nevertheless, with the team’s passion to fulfill the tasks and with the usual management support, that goal will eventually be attained.

Today, with the same approach as that of last year but in a much intensified level of the energetic and determined Cotabato Light team, the company pushes further the meter clustering project.

As load centers are being monitored on a monthly basis, electric-pilferage prone areas are now more visible to the technical eye. Thus, knowing where to focus our energy and effort tends to save valuable time and effort in addressing our problem head-on.

A validation to this was the recently completed second phase of meter clustering bearing much fruit as system loss has been continuously going down. Company statistics showed that systems loss dropped from January-10.42% to December-9.12% as of last year data.