Stop taking your utility's rate. Start bidding your generation charge.
Generation is roughly 55% of a Philippine electricity bill and it has risen every month of 2026. Since 26 June 2026 you can put that line out to competitive tender at 100 kW average monthly peak demand — alone, or aggregated with your other sites. Greencon screens your eligibility for free, forms the group, runs the bid, and tracks the switch to energization.
What changed, and why it matters now
Retail Competition and Open Access has existed in the Philippines for years, but until recently it was a large-facility privilege. ERC Resolution No. 22, Series of 2025 — issued 4 November 2025 and effective 26 June 2026 — cut the retail contestability threshold from 500 kW to 100 kW average monthly peak demand. ERC's own estimate puts more than 12,100 additional end-users nationwide into the market for the first time.
Distribution utilities and retail metering service providers were given eight months to install compliant advanced metering infrastructure, which means the physical enablement should already be in place at most qualifying sites. The constraint now is not the meter. It is that most facility managers have never run a competitive electricity tender and have no baseline for what a good bid looks like.
Why this is usually bigger than a retrofit
Generation is around 55% of a Philippine electricity bill. PEMC's 2024 Annual Retail Market Assessment found contestable customers paid roughly 14% below default utility rates. On a facility spending ₱5 million a month, that is about ₱4.6 million a year — realised in roughly 90 days, with no capital expenditure and no plant downtime.
If you are under 100 kW on your own
A single site below the threshold cannot contract directly with a supplier. It can, however, join a Retail Aggregated Group. Facilities under common ownership within the same business category can pool their demand and clear the threshold together. As of 2025 there were 37 such groups operating with roughly 31 MW combined, and the Manila Water aggregation — 10 facilities totalling 500 kW in February 2025 — is the template most multi-site operators end up following.
This is why aggregation suits cold-chain operators, hospital groups, hotel chains and mall portfolios especially well: the sites are individually modest, commonly owned, and already report into one facilities function.
The 90-day switch, with the black box removed
Most facilitators walk clients into a three-month silence between signing and energization. That silence is where trust is lost. We publish the sequence up front and expose live status through the Energy Portfolio Platform, so you can answer your CFO's "where are we" without emailing us.
- Days 1–5 Contestability & aggregation screening We ingest 12 months of distribution utility bills, compute your average monthly peak demand, confirm individual contestability or Retail Aggregated Group candidacy, and size the indicative saving. No fee, and you keep the analysis whether or not you proceed.
- Days 6–20 Group formation & load profiling Where aggregation applies, we cluster sites by ownership, business category and load shape. Load profiling matters here: a flat 24/7 cold-storage profile and a two-shift manufacturing profile attract very different bids.
- Days 21–45 Competitive supplier bidding We solicit bids from licensed Retail Electricity Suppliers and normalise them so they are actually comparable — across fixed, WESM-indexed, time-of-use and hybrid structures, with wheeling charges and contract term explicitly on the same page.
- Days 46–65 Letter of Intent & Retail Supply Contract We support commercial and contractual review, including termination terms, credit and security requirements, and the pass-through clauses that determine who actually carries market-price risk.
- Days 66–80 AMI verification & Switch Request Form Advanced metering infrastructure is verified against requirements, then the Switch Request Form is filed — no later than seven working days before the intended switch date.
- Day ~90 Energization & first-invoice reconciliation You energize under the new supply contract. We reconcile the first invoices against the contract and wheeling charges, because first-cycle billing errors are common and rarely self-correct.
The four bid structures, in plain terms
Suppliers will quote you at least one of these, often several. The right answer depends on your load shape and your tolerance for month-to-month variance — not on which headline number is lowest.
| Structure | How it prices | Suits you if | The risk you carry |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fixed | One rate per kWh for the contract term. | You budget tightly and value predictability over upside. | You do not benefit if spot prices fall. |
| WESM-indexed | Tracks the wholesale spot market plus a margin. | You can absorb monthly variance and believe spot will average lower. | Full exposure to spot spikes — WESM ran ₱8.03/kWh in July 2026. |
| Time-of-use | Different rates by period, typically peak and off-peak. | You can genuinely shift load, or already run off-peak. | Savings depend on operational discipline you must actually sustain. |
| Hybrid | A fixed block plus an indexed remainder. | You want a predictable floor with partial upside. | Complexity — the blend ratio is where margin hides. |
How we stay honest about supplier selection
The uncomfortable truth about this market is that facilitators are often paid by the supplier they recommend, and clients are rarely told. We take a different position, and we would rather you hold us to it.
- We are not a licensed Retail Electricity Supplier. We hold no ERC RES licence and we do not sell you electricity. We are a facilitator and technology partner to licensed suppliers.
- Every referral or commission arrangement is disclosed in writing before you compare bids, so you can judge for yourself whether the comparison was independent.
- Our success fee is tied to verified savings — 15% of the verified year-one saving against your pre-switch utility baseline, measured the same way we measure efficiency retrofits under IPMVP.
Frequently Asked Questions
What changed on 26 June 2026?
ERC Resolution No. 22, Series of 2025 lowered the retail contestability threshold from 500 kW to 100 kW average monthly peak demand. ERC estimated this puts more than 12,100 additional end-users nationwide into the contestable market for the first time.
My site is under 100 kW. Am I excluded?
Not necessarily. Facilities under common ownership within the same business category can form a Retail Aggregated Group and reach the threshold together. As of 2025 there were 37 such groups operating with roughly 31 MW combined.
How much can switching actually save?
PEMC's 2024 assessment found contestable customers paid roughly 14% below default utility rates, and generation is about 55% of the bill. That is the figure we quote. Facilitators commonly advertise 14–30%; treat the upper end as a marketing claim until a supplier bid proves otherwise for your load shape.
How long does the switch take?
Roughly 90 days from Letter of Intent through Retail Supply Contract, AMI verification and Switch Request Form filing to energization. The Switch Request Form must be filed at least seven working days before the intended switch date.
Is Greencon a licensed Retail Electricity Supplier?
No. We are a facilitator and technology partner to licensed suppliers. We hold no ERC RES licence and we do not sell you electricity. Any referral or commission arrangement is disclosed to you in writing before you compare bids.
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The screening is our first deliverable, not a sales call. You get your average monthly peak demand, your contestability status, and a sized indicative saving — whether or not you engage us for the switch.
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