MANILA, Philippines --- The Department of Energy (DOE) has a proposal to amend the Electric Power Industry Reform Act of 2001 (EPIRA) to ban foreign-owned or foreign government-backed enterprises from engaging in power transmission. In the hearing of the House Committee on Energy on Tuesday, DOE officials, Undersecretary Sharon Garin, a former House representative, presented the DOE version of the bill seeking to reform the EPIRA (Republic Act No. 9136) --- which many lawmakers believe has failed to bring electricity prices down. Section 5 of the DOE proposal would like to include additional paragraphs that would effectively prohibit firms controlled or acting on behalf of fore...Keep on reading: DOE wants EPIRA to ban foreign power distributors