Under EPIRA, there are two ways electricity is provided to a household: grid and off-grid. A household is considered to be serviced through the grid if electricity access is provided through local connections from a main grid.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Figure: Structure of the Power Industry in the Philippines[1]<\/a><\/p>\n In the context of the Philippines, consumers located in larger islands are generally connected to a main grid system (i.e. Luzon Grid, Visayas Grid, Mindanao Grid), while those geographically unable to connect to the main grid make use of small islands and isolated grids (SIIGs) whose supply is provided by the NPC-Small Power Utilities Group (NPC-SPUG), privately-owned New Power Providers (NPPs) and Qualified Third Party (QTP) providers.[2]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n EPIRA covers the four sectors of the electric power industry: generation, transmission, distribution, and supply. EPIRA defines said sectors, as follows: Generation of Electricity refers to the production of electricity by a generation company or a co-generation facility Transmission of Electricity refers to the conveyance of electricity through the high voltage backbone system Distribution of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/solarsolutions.ph\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/solarsolutions.ph\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/solarsolutions.ph\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solarsolutions.ph\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solarsolutions.ph\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/solarsolutions.ph\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":418,"href":"https:\/\/solarsolutions.ph\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions\/418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/solarsolutions.ph\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solarsolutions.ph\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solarsolutions.ph\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>[1]<\/a> Asian Development Bank, \u201cPhilippines Energy Sector Assessment, Strategy, and Road Map\u201d\n\n[2]<\/sup><\/a> Philippine Energy Plan 2020\n\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"