The government should tighten competition safeguards in the country’s power sector as it amends the two-decade-old Electric Power Industry Reform Act (EPIRA) of 2001, with preliminary research showing that the five largest conglomerates control about 85 percent of nationwide installed generation capacity, according to state-run policy think tank Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS).
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