ManilaA Las Piñas family paid 700,000 pesos for solar and saves 20,000 monthly.
The median Filipino household spends around 12% of monthly income on electricity, a June estimate says.
Meralco’s rate is up 16% since January, and Ember analyst Alnie Demoral says a rooftop system pays back in about 3 years.
Updated official figures on rooftop solar have yet to be released, Demoral says.
How each outlet framed it
- Dialogue Earth
- tells the solar story through household savings (PHP 20,000/month) and the upfront PHP 700,000 cost that prices out the poor
Sources: Dialogue Earth