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BATELEC II Electric Coop vs Energy Industry Administration Bureau, et al.

BATELEC II ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC., Petitioner, versus ENERGY INDUSTRY ADMINISTRATION BUREAU (EIAB), PUYAT STEEL CORP. AND NATIONAL POWER CORPORATION, Respondents.

G.R. NO. 135925 | 2004-12-22

D E C I S I O N

CHICO-NAZARIO, J.:

... Exclusivity is given by law with the understanding that the company enjoying it is self-sufficient and capable of supplying the needed service or product at moderate or reasonable prices. It would be against public interest where the firm granted a monopoly is merely an unnecessary conduit of electric power, jacking up prices as a superfluous middleman or an inefficient producer which cannot supply cheap electricity to power intensive industries. It is in the public interest when industries dependent on heavy use of electricity are given reliable and direct power at the lower costs thus enabling the...