MERALCO is an investor-owned electric utility serving roughly a quarter of the estimated 94 million population of the Republic of the Philippines.
It was organized as the Manila Electric Railroad and Light Company 107 years ago in 1903 to provide electric light and power and an electric street railway system to Manila and its suburbs. The facilities that Meralco built to provide these two services represented for many years the largest single investment of American private capital and know-how in the whole of East Asia.
