And are energy bills something that Filipinos are used to grumbling about?

Oh yeah, absolutely.

A report by Reuters say that households now spend about 12% of their monthly income on their electricity.

And with these soaring prices on food and basic goods because of the Middle East conflict, a lot of Filipino households are already really feeling this as a gut punch to them because this money that they are paying for their electricity bills could easily be allocated for other things such as food or other basic necessities or even for their savings or their health care or the education of their children.

Just to give a bit of a context here, Jordan, the reason why Filipinos pay so much for our electricity is because we are heavily reliant on imported fossil fuels.

And majority of this is coal, which is imported from Indonesia.

And another thing that really pushes our electricity bills so high is gas.

Jesset, when did you start to see this recent boom happening? When did people start talking about it?