EE LAWS, CONTRACTS AND

PROFESSIONAL ETHICS
RETAIL COMPETITION AND
OPEN ACCESS (RCOA)
ROAD TO RESTRUCTURING
WHAT IS RCOA?
• Retail Competition and Open Access (RCOA) allows
power suppliers to directly transact with any
customer designated by the ERC as part of the
contestable market. It also allows these contestable
customers to decide which electricity suppliers to
source power from. The establishment of RCOA is
mandated by the Electric Power Industry Reform
Act of 2001 (EPIRA).
WHAT IS RCOA?
WHO ARE THE MAIN PLAYERS IN
RCOA?
• Retail Electricity Suppliers (RES) or power suppliers
licensed by the ERC to sell electricity to the
contestable market.
• Contestable Customers (CC) may be a corporation or
business establishment and even households whose
average consumption during the last 12 months
reached a minimum of 500 kW.
RCOA SET-UP
RCOA EXPECTED OUTCOME
• Competitive Rates
• Entrance of new industry players
• Flexible contract terms
• Strong Competition among players
• Better Supplier service
• Innovation of additional service
 RETAIL ELECTRICITY SUPPLIER (RES)
AS OF SEPTEMBER 2016
• Aboitiz Energy Solutions, Inc.
• Advent Energy, Inc.
• Direct Power Services, Inc.
• Ecozone Power Management Inc.
• Ferro Energy, Inc
• Global Energy Supply Corporation
• GNPower Ltd.Co.
• Kratos RES Inc.
• Premier Energy Resources
• PRISM Energy Inc.
• San Miguel Electric Corp.
• Team (Phils.) Energy Corp.
• Trans-Asia Oil & Energy Dev.Corp.
• SN Aboitiz Power-RES, Inc.
• First Gen Energy Solutions
• Manila Energy, Inc.
• Millennium Power RES Inc.
• FDC Retail Electricity Sales Corp.
• SMC Consolidated Power Corp.
• Corenergy, Inc.
• AC Energy Holdings, Inc.
HOW DOES THE RCOA BENEFIT
CONSTESTABLE CURSTOMERS?
• Being part of the contestable market allows
customers to choose their own retail electricity
supplier.
• This also allows them to pick clean and
environment-friendly sources of electricity.
LIST OF CONTESTABLE CUSTOMERS

• list_contestable_customers_luzon.pdf (doe.gov.ph)
• list_contestable_customers_visayas.pdf
(doe.gov.ph)
RCOA EDUCATION SERIES
• RCOA Episode 1 – YouTube
• RCOA Episode 2 – YouTube
• RCOA Episode 3 - YouTube
• RCOA Education Series: Retail Competition and
Open Access - YouTube