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| Meralco Puts Onus on ERC for all its Billions of overcharging and high buying rates. | April 4, 2021 |
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| Viewpoint: Meralco’s Initial Responses to MSK’s Complaints of Overcharging and Anomalous High Rate of Quezon Power | March 30, 2021 |
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| Finally, Meralco Completes CSP Of An 1,800MW Power Supply…. But What Devils would be in the Details? | March 12, 2021 |
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| Meralco’s Continued Payment of 50% Premium to Partner Quezon Power Alarming. | March 4, 2021 |
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| Our Complaint with the ERC for a P29 Billion in Overcharges from 2013 to 2018 (Part 2) | February 28, 2021 |
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| Our Complaint with the ERC for a P29 Billion in Overcharges from 2013 to 2018 (Part 1) | February 26, 2021 |
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| ERC To Hear Finally MSK’s Overcharging Complaints Against Meralco starting March 30, 2021. | February 22, 2021 |
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| A 30% Reduction in Meralco’s Retail Rate is a Just and Achievable Dream. And It Is Totally within the Control of Government! (Part 2) | February 2, 2021 |
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| Are Filipinos Paying Too High for Electricity? Let us compare. We are 121% higher than Vietnam and 43% higher than Thailand. (Part 1) | January 27, 2021 |
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| Viewpoint: Bidding for power supply contracts above board, says Meralco | January 6, 2021 |
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| Why Public Interest Deserves the Investigation of Meralco’s Power Purchases from QPPL at Excessive Rates | December 28, 2020 |
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| Coal Is Supposed To Be Cheap and so will be Nuclear. But the Prices do not Trickle down to Meralco consumers – 3 Reasons why. | December 23, 2020 |
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| CounterPoint: Meralco: Smarter Than Most of Us… and Outsmarting the Government? | December 12, 2020 |
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| Viewpoint: Meralco: Smarter than high-schoolers | December 10, 2020 |
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| What Gives? Meralco Announced a 0.46% Decrease in November. WESM Decreased by 36%. QPPL Increased by 18.49%. | December 6, 2020 |
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| Why there is a need to Investigate the QPL and Meralco Billings for 2020? | December 1, 2020 |
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| Meralco Should be Honest with the Consumers, Regulators, and Government | November 24, 2020 |
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| Did Meralco and San Miguel Conspire to Overcharge Consumers P1.6 Billion for Masinloc Plant in 2018? | November 20, 2020 |
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| Numbers Don’t Lie. Meralco Generators Charge LESS When there is no Cross Ownership. Therma Luzon of Aboitiz Should be Generator of the Year 2020! | November 3, 2020 |
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| Meralco Customers Getting Hammered by Sweetheart Charging of Power from Partners EGAT of Thailand and San Miguel. | October 29, 2020 |
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| Quezon Power Mauban’s Rate is now 51% to 82% higher than the other coal plants. Should the DOE and ERC not investigate? | October 17, 2020 |
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| Meralco Stones Unturned. An Urgent Need for a COA Audit of Data “Black Boxes” (Part 4/4) | August 10, 2020 |
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| Stories that Meralco’s Numbers Tell. Comparing Meralco under the MVP Group and Lopez Group (Part 3/4) | August 7, 2020 |
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| Unraveling Meralco’s Mystifying Sales Numbers – By Methods We Learned in High School (Part 2/4) | August 4, 2020 |
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| Unraveling Meralco’s Mystifying Sales Numbers – By Methods We Learned in High School (Part 1/4) | August 1, 2020 |
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| An Open Letter to Meralco on MSK “Fake News” | July 17, 2020 |
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| The Inconvenient Truth in Meralco’s Numbers (Part 3) | July 15, 2020 |
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| Can Meralco Sell More Power than It is Buying? Meralco’s Conflicting Declarations (Part 2) | July 10, 2020 |
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| Can Meralco Sell More Power than It is Buying? Meralco’s Conflicting Declarations (Part 1) | July 8, 2020 |
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| Right Complaints but Wrong Questions on Meralco’s Shockingly High Electricity Bills During the ECQ and GCQ Period. | July 4, 2020 |
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| Regulatory Complications of Meralco’s Attempts at Billions In Windfall Profits During This Covid-19 Pandemic | June 30, 2020 |
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| Fact-Checking Meralco’s Generation Rate. Rates Should be Lower, and Would be Even Lower if QPL Mauban is Made Reasonable. | June 22, 2020 |
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| Practical Meralco Meter Reading for a Selfie Nation. Cheaper and Faster. Thinking Outside the Box | June 12, 2020 |
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| What’s Wrong with Meralco Charging Full Residential Rates for Higher Electricity Consumption While In Covid-19 Quarantine? | June 8, 2020 |
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| Meralco’s Windfall Profits In Lockdown Months of P2.1B a month? The Truth in Numbers. (Part 2) | June 5, 2020 |
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| Meralco Rates Analyzed. The Truth in Numbers | June 1, 2020 |
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| Viewpoint: Meralco asks DOE to delay bidding for 1,800-MW supply | April 29, 2020 |
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| We Need Consistency and Coherence in our Energy Mix Policy….Walking the Clean Energy Talk | March 10, 2020 |
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| Why is MSK Petitioning ERC for P29 B Meralco Refund due to Windfall Revenues from 2013 to 2018? | January 11, 2020 |
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| True Competition in Power…. Our Simple But Very Elusive Dream | December 29, 2019 |
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| An Uncontrollable 800-Lb Gorilla in Distribution like Meralco is Disruptive of Social Order | December 24, 2019 |
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| Whats Wrong with Meralco’s Atimonan One Project And How to Resolve it | December 18, 2019 |
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| Headline: Duterte orders strict compliance by power plants. | November 1, 2019 |
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| Meralco’s CSP HELE HELE with Super Critical Coal Technology | October 13, 2019 |
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| Meralco Style CSP Only Complying with the Ritual of CSP but Betraying the Spirit of the Supreme Court Decision | September 23, 2019 |
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| Meralco’s Successful 1,200mw CSP…a Prelude to A Negotiated 1,200mw Atimonan One | September 13, 2019 |
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| Meralco’s Terms of Bidding for 2,900mw CSP – You’ve Got to be Kidding! (updated version) | July 27, 2019 |
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| Will the ERC and DOE Remake Themselves as a result of the Supreme Court Ruling on Meralco CSP? (Part 3) | June 19, 2019 |
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| The Supreme Court Decision was supposed to be a Consumer’s Checkmate on Meralco’s 7 Midnight PSAs….It Turned Out to be a Stalemate! (Part 2) | June 1, 2019 |
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| The Supreme Court Decision was supposed to be a Consumer’s Checkmate on Meralco’s 7 Midnight PSAs….It Turned Out to be a Stalemate! Bummer! (Part 1) | May 29, 2019 |
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| Wake Up Calls For All of Us On Power Yellow Alerts…Whose Job is it Anyway? | April 25, 2019 |
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| Yellow and Red Power Alert, Things to Ponder, The Outdated and Onerous Genco Contracts, and Permanent Solutions (Part 2) | April 17, 2019 |
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| Yellow and Red Power Alert, Things to Ponder, The Outdated and Onerous Genco Contracts, and Permanent Solutions (Part 1) | April 15, 2019 |
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| Rethinking the ERC plan to shift to “fixed price”generation rates…And the “30% of Project Cost” Exemption from CSP!! | April 5, 2019 |
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| Elephants in the ERC Room…And a Flying Dumbo (Part 3) | March 16, 2019 |
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| Meralco Skeletons in the ERC Closet.... and A Humble Message to the New Commissioners (Part 2) | February 28, 2019 |
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| Meralco Skeletons in the ERC Closet, Elephants in the Room (Part 1) | February 26, 2019 |
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| DISTURBING QUESTIONS ON MERALCO’S INCREASE IN POWER GENERATION CHARGES THAT WE HOPE THE ERC WILL ASK THEM TO EXPLAIN | February 15, 2019 |
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| POLICY ISSUES THAT THE GOVERNMENT NEEDS TO RESOLVE BEFORE THE PRIVATIZATION OF ELECTRIC COOPS | February 8, 2019 |
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| Should your Electric Distribution Utility or Electric Coop be Replaced? And What’s The Right and Democratic Way to do it? (Part 1) | January 21, 2019 |
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| Concerns of Cebu Electric Consumers | December 20, 2018 |
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| Outdated Anti-Consumer Terms in BOT-Type PSA Contracts Need to be Prohibited (Part 1) | December 3, 2018 |
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| Consumer Hopes In The New ERC - Rise of a Regulatory Phoenix | November 20, 2018 |
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| The Solar Para Sa Bayan Mini-Grid Franchise is a Trojan Horse (Part 2) | October 11, 2018 |
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| The Consumers Dilemma that is Atimonan….The Riddle that is Energy Mix. (Part 2) | October 5, 2018 |
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| The Consumers Dilemma that is Atimonan….The Riddle that is Energy Mix. (Part 1) | October 4, 2018 |
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| Stars Aligning for the ERC Approval Soon of Meralco’s1,200MW Atimonan One Coal Project! | September 26, 2018 |
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| The People have Spoken: Survey Finds 84% of Adults in Metro-Manila Not Satisfied with Meralco’s rate. | August 27, 2018 |
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| Counterpoint to Meralco’s Rate Propaganda: The Issue is Affordability and Overcharging in Rates Not Statistical Mumbo-Jumbo | August 22, 2018 |
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| Viewpoint: Meralco power rates fair and reasonable, now below world average; and continue to decrease | August 18, 2018 |
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| Reduce Your Power Bill by 25% Now!! Meralco Consumers Revenge- We have the Power! | July 30, 2018 |
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| Will The Meralco and Solar Phils 2.99 Solar Rate Really Happen? Is there an Inner Revenue game and How will the Regulators determine its “Fair and Reasonableness”? | July 18, 2018 |
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| Counterpoint: Was the EPIRA Law Successful at 17? | June 29, 2018 |
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| Who is to Blame for the Delays of the 1,200mw Atimonan One and 600mw Redondo Power Coal Projects? Meralco, Consumer Groups, or ERC? | June 5, 2018 |
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| ABOLISHING ERC AND CREATING A NEW POWER REGULATORY AGENCY NOT THE KEYS…..IT IS HEART AND SPIRIT. (Part 1) | May 25, 2018 |
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| True Significance for Consumers of Meralco and Solar Philippines P2.99 Solar Deal | April 30, 2018 |
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| The Correct and Legal Way to Determine Concentration of Power Generating Capacity (Part 1) | April 2, 2018 |
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| State of Power Industry or Do WE Have Enough Supply? | March 26, 2018 |
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| WIN WIN SOLUTION FOR MERALCO’s 3,551MW MIDNIGHT CSP CIRCUMVENTION | March 15, 2018 |
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| NEW ERC SYSTEMS LOSS LIMITS MUST BE ABSOLUTE NOT AVERAGE TO TRULY BENEFIT MERALCO and CEBU CONSUMERS | March 3, 2018 |
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| The Lesson That Matters from the Ombudsman Suspension of the ERC Commissioners | February 17, 2018 |
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| CounterPoint: Our Rates are high because of Sweetheart Deals with Sister Generators and of Anomalous PBR rate methodology by ERC. | February 9, 2018 |
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| HERE WE GO AGAIN: THE OLD GAME OF THREATENING BROWNOUTS TO OVERPOWER CONSUMERS AND GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS | January 18, 2018 |
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| Viewpoint: Ombudsman’s Unfounded Suspension of the ERC Commissioners Will Have Severe Economic and Financial Impact on the Country | January 15, 2018 |
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| Electric Consumers’ 12 New Year’s Wishes on ERC | December 30, 2017 |
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| MERALCO POWERGENS 3,551mw Power Supply Contracts – Are they Midnight? Are they not Sweetheart? Are they Cartelization? | December 28, 2017 |
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| Urgent Biddings Needed to Assure Future Power Supply. Lets Hope Old ERC Officials are Not Recycled | December 23, 2017 |
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| COAL OR NATURAL GAS IS NOT AN EITHER OR QUESTION | December 5, 2017 |
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| Our National Dance on Market Concentration in Power….and the Resulting Monopolization, Oligopolization, and Cartelization. | October 24, 2017 |
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| Legislators Incessantly Pressuring ERC for Meralco Must Equally Show Concern for Electric Consumers | October 17, 2017 |
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| Viewpoint: Meralco Midnight Contracts an ERC-Meralco Conspiracy? | October 7, 2017 |
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| Meralco’s Generation Cartel is the Issue and Itgoes Beyond Meralco and into Power…..the political kind. (Part 2) | September 28, 2017 |
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| Meralco’s Abuse of Market Power Corrals Generators Into a Meralco Cartel …..With Long Term Implications (Part 1) | September 23, 2017 |
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| ERC Must be Cured Not Abolished Nor Crippled | September 16, 2017 |
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| Viewpoint: Comparing Philippine Electricity Rates vs Asean – Just the Facts | September 13, 2017 |
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| Comparing Philippine Electricity Rates vs Asean – Just the Facts | September 8, 2017 |
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| Meralco’s CSP Of Solar Proves Consumer Benefits of True CSP … and the Excessive Cost of Fit Subsidies | August 22, 2017 |
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| Power Crisis Would be Coming If We don’t Act Now! | July 5, 2017 |
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| Dominant Power Generators Bat to Keep EPIRA Law with only minor changes. | June 28, 2017 |
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| Can PCC Step Up to Arrest Rampaging Monopolization and Cartelization of the Power Generation Sector? | June 13, 2017 |
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| 15 Things I have in Common with Mr. MVP of Meralco | May 31, 2017 |
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| The Kind of ERC the Country Needs | May 8, 2017 |
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| Meralco Needs True Concern for Consumers in Annual Malampaya Shutdown Costs | March 20, 2017 |
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| RCOA AND THE ERC’s MANDATE TO CREATE COMPETITION IN THE POWER SECTOR | February 27, 2017 |
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| Viewpoint: Is it goodbye ‘FIT’… and will market forces prevail? (Solar's FIT mess) | February 21, 2017 |
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| Part of Meralco’sP19 Billion Profit Comes From Improper Systems Loss Charges | January 27, 2017 |
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| Are Meralco Rates Lower? Yes. Are they Fair and Reasonable? No! Plus the Hoodwink of IEC’s Power Cost Reports. | January 23, 2017 |
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| Meralco’s Customer Mix and the DOE’s Flexible Energy Mix | January 4, 2017 |
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| Whats Anomalous About Meralco’s Charging the Public with Negotiated Rates Without CSP?And the DOE Doling Out FIT Subsidies? | November 28, 2016 |
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| Meralco’s Self-Dealing is Rent-Seeking on its Distribution Franchise. It is Abuse of Market Power and Harmful to Consumers. | November 14, 2016 |
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| Meralco’s Lower Rate Temporary, Due to Luck Not Rate Reform | October 17, 2016 |
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| IPP’s Surrender to Meralco’s Market Capture and the Rise of the Power Oligarchy | August 22, 2016 |
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| Meralco’s Seven (7) Midnight Coal Power Supply Contracts If Allowed will Define us as a People and Nation Beyond Electricity | August 15, 2016 |
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| Cutting Electricity Rates The Right Way | July 9, 2016 |
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| Meralco’s Most Brazen Consumer Hoodwinking May Yet to Come on CSP | March 3, 2016 |
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| Meralco’s Increasing Rates Due to Outdated “Down and Still Pay” Allowances | February 22, 2016 |
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| Meralco’s P0.18 Reduction In 2015 Is A Camouflaged Refund of Overcharge in 2011 | January 31, 2016 |
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| Meralco’s P0.18 Distribution Rate Reduction is a Fruit of the Poisoned PBR Tree | December 7, 2015 |
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| The DOE’s CSP Rules and You ……And Why Meralco Is Fighting it Tooth and Nail | October 26, 2015 |
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| Will Meralco’s Rate Reductions be Permanent? Not a Chance. | October 21, 2015 |
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| Meralco’s Gump at DOE/ERC Hearing on CSP | October 7, 2015 |
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| Moving Forward with the Mandatory CSP Of Power Supply Contracts | September 21, 2015 |
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| Solar Power’s Role in the Energy Mix and in Power Cost Reduction | August 2, 2015 |
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| Meralco’s Proposal for Voluntary CSP is a Ruse To Buy Time | July 25, 2015 |
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| Signs of Life and Hope for Meralco Consumers | June 23, 2015 |
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| Gov't Can Cure Malampaya Disruption of Meralco Rates | May 30, 2015 |
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| True Competition Beats Regulation for Fair Meralco Generation Rates | May 22, 2015 |
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| ERC sets public hearing of MSK petition to bid power supply contracts | March 3, 2015 |
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| Meralco Customers Paying P13.68 B a Year More To Sister Company Generators | February 19, 2015 |
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| Clear and Present Danger of Meralco’s Monopolization and Sister Company Generation | January 21, 2015 |
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| It Will Take a Village to Reduce Meralco’s Rates | January 15, 2015 |
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| How Much Should Meralco be Allowed to Profit as a Public Service Utility? | January 8, 2015 |
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| Ball on Sec. Petilla's Court in Reducing Electricity Rates | December 17, 2014 |
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| Meralco’s Generation Rate Reduction Welcome but Temporary | December 13, 2014 |
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| Understanding Meralco's Systems Loss Charge | December 5, 2014 |
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| Sen. Santiago adopts MSK findings that Meralco can drop its rate by P3/kwh | November 22, 2014 |
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| MSK explains basis for P3 Meralco overprice | October 18, 2014 |
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| Men's Top 10 Ways to Reduce Their Meralco Electric Bill. Ok 12. (Desperate Version). | December 26, 2015 |
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| Grid Systems Operation must be returned to Transco, Urgently! | September 19, 2014 |
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| An Open Letter to Meralco and Metro Pacific | August 23, 2014 |
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| Power Rates Can Really Be Reduced by Implementing Better the Current EPIRA Law (Part 2) | January 24, 2023 |
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| The Philippine Power Sector and Consumers 20 years After the Epira Law of 2001 (Part 2 of 2) | July 28, 2021 |
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| Meralco Puts Onus on ERC for all its Billions of overcharging and high buying rates. | April 4, 2021 |
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| Viewpoint: Meralco’s Initial Responses to MSK’s Complaints of Overcharging and Anomalous High Rate of Quezon Power | March 30, 2021 |
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| Meralco’s Continued Payment of 50% Premium to Partner Quezon Power Alarming. | March 4, 2021 |
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| Our Complaint with the ERC for a P29 Billion in Overcharges from 2013 to 2018 (Part 2) | February 28, 2021 |
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| Our Complaint with the ERC for a P29 Billion in Overcharges from 2013 to 2018 (Part 1) | February 26, 2021 |
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| ERC To Hear Finally MSK’s Overcharging Complaints Against Meralco starting March 30, 2021. | February 22, 2021 |
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| A 30% Reduction in Meralco’s Retail Rate is a Just and Achievable Dream. And It Is Totally within the Control of Government! (Part 2) | February 2, 2021 |
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| Viewpoint: Bidding for power supply contracts above board, says Meralco | January 6, 2021 |
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| Why Public Interest Deserves the Investigation of Meralco’s Power Purchases from QPPL at Excessive Rates | December 28, 2020 |
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| CounterPoint: Meralco: Smarter Than Most of Us… and Outsmarting the Government? | December 12, 2020 |
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| Viewpoint: Meralco: Smarter than high-schoolers | December 10, 2020 |
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| What Gives? Meralco Announced a 0.46% Decrease in November. WESM Decreased by 36%. QPPL Increased by 18.49%. | December 6, 2020 |
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| Meralco Should be Honest with the Consumers, Regulators, and Government | November 24, 2020 |
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| Did Meralco and San Miguel Conspire to Overcharge Consumers P1.6 Billion for Masinloc Plant in 2018? | November 20, 2020 |
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| Meralco Customers Getting Hammered by Sweetheart Charging of Power from Partners EGAT of Thailand and San Miguel. | October 29, 2020 |
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| Quezon Power Mauban’s Rate is now 51% to 82% higher than the other coal plants. Should the DOE and ERC not investigate? | October 17, 2020 |
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| Meralco Stones Unturned. An Urgent Need for a COA Audit of Data “Black Boxes” (Part 4/4) | August 10, 2020 |
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| Stories that Meralco’s Numbers Tell. Comparing Meralco under the MVP Group and Lopez Group (Part 3/4) | August 7, 2020 |
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| Unraveling Meralco’s Mystifying Sales Numbers – By Methods We Learned in High School (Part 2/4) | August 4, 2020 |
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| Unraveling Meralco’s Mystifying Sales Numbers – By Methods We Learned in High School (Part 1/4) | August 1, 2020 |
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| An Open Letter to Meralco on MSK “Fake News” | July 17, 2020 |
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| The Inconvenient Truth in Meralco’s Numbers (Part 3) | July 15, 2020 |
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| Can Meralco Sell More Power than It is Buying? Meralco’s Conflicting Declarations (Part 2) | July 10, 2020 |
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| Right Complaints but Wrong Questions on Meralco’s Shockingly High Electricity Bills During the ECQ and GCQ Period. | July 4, 2020 |
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| Regulatory Complications of Meralco’s Attempts at Billions In Windfall Profits During This Covid-19 Pandemic | June 30, 2020 |
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| Practical Meralco Meter Reading for a Selfie Nation. Cheaper and Faster. Thinking Outside the Box | June 12, 2020 |
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| What’s Wrong with Meralco Charging Full Residential Rates for Higher Electricity Consumption While In Covid-19 Quarantine? | June 8, 2020 |
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| In A Socially Distanced Economy, Financially Distanced Consumers Need Even More Protection To Survive and Thrive. (Part 2) | May 21, 2020 |
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| SOLIDARITY WITH THE COUNTRY BY DEFERRING PAYMENTS OF OBLIGATIONS AND DUES FOR THIRTY (30) DAYS AFTER 14 APRIL 2020 FOR THE BENEFIT OF CONSUMERS | March 24, 2020 |
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| Why is MSK Petitioning ERC for P29 B Meralco Refund due to Windfall Revenues from 2013 to 2018? | January 11, 2020 |
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| True Competition in Power…. Our Simple But Very Elusive Dream | December 29, 2019 |
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| An Uncontrollable 800-Lb Gorilla in Distribution like Meralco is Disruptive of Social Order | December 24, 2019 |
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| HEROES OF OUR TIMES – IN THE POWER SECTOR (Part 2) | December 4, 2019 |
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| HEROES OF OUR TIMES – IN THE POWER SECTOR (Part 1) | December 2, 2019 |
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| Viewpoint: The 52-Billion Pesos Mindanao-Visayas Interconnection Project | October 10, 2019 |
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| Will the ERC and DOE Remake Themselves as a result of the Supreme Court Ruling on Meralco CSP? (Part 3) | June 19, 2019 |
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| The Supreme Court Decision was supposed to be a Consumer’s Checkmate on Meralco’s 7 Midnight PSAs….It Turned Out to be a Stalemate! (Part 2) | June 1, 2019 |
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| The Supreme Court Decision was supposed to be a Consumer’s Checkmate on Meralco’s 7 Midnight PSAs….It Turned Out to be a Stalemate! Bummer! (Part 1) | May 29, 2019 |
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| The Root Cause of Power Plant Shutdowns are not Technical But Contractual and Financial | May 2, 2019 |
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| Wake Up Calls For All of Us On Power Yellow Alerts…Whose Job is it Anyway? | April 25, 2019 |
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| Yellow and Red Power Alert, Things to Ponder, The Outdated and Onerous Genco Contracts, and Permanent Solutions (Part 2) | April 17, 2019 |
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| Rethinking the ERC plan to shift to “fixed price”generation rates…And the “30% of Project Cost” Exemption from CSP!! | April 5, 2019 |
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| Elephants in the ERC Room…And a Flying Dumbo (Part 3) | March 16, 2019 |
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| Meralco Skeletons in the ERC Closet.... and A Humble Message to the New Commissioners (Part 2) | February 28, 2019 |
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| Meralco Skeletons in the ERC Closet, Elephants in the Room (Part 1) | February 26, 2019 |
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| Why You would Want to Take Over an Off-Grid EC Franchise Area? It’s a lot of Headaches! 8 reasons why. | February 23, 2019 |
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| DISTURBING QUESTIONS ON MERALCO’S INCREASE IN POWER GENERATION CHARGES THAT WE HOPE THE ERC WILL ASK THEM TO EXPLAIN | February 15, 2019 |
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| The Dance Around the Truth and Reality of the Governments Role in EC Failures | February 12, 2019 |
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| ABOLISHING ERC AND CREATING A NEW POWER REGULATORY AGENCY NOT THE KEYS…..IT IS HEART AND SPIRIT. (Part 1) | May 25, 2018 |
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| State of Power Industry or Do WE Have Enough Supply? | March 26, 2018 |
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| NEW ERC SYSTEMS LOSS LIMITS MUST BE ABSOLUTE NOT AVERAGE TO TRULY BENEFIT MERALCO and CEBU CONSUMERS | March 3, 2018 |
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| The Lesson That Matters from the Ombudsman Suspension of the ERC Commissioners | February 17, 2018 |
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| HERE WE GO AGAIN: THE OLD GAME OF THREATENING BROWNOUTS TO OVERPOWER CONSUMERS AND GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS | January 18, 2018 |
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| Viewpoint: Ombudsman’s Unfounded Suspension of the ERC Commissioners Will Have Severe Economic and Financial Impact on the Country | January 15, 2018 |
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| Electric Consumers’ 12 New Year’s Wishes on ERC | December 30, 2017 |
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| Urgent Biddings Needed to Assure Future Power Supply. Lets Hope Old ERC Officials are Not Recycled | December 23, 2017 |
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| Govt’s Right to Tax Power Comes with Obligation to Protect Electric Consumers From Exploitation | December 19, 2017 |
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| New ERC Chair Agnes VST Devanadera Will be Good if She Listens to Her Own Heart and Soul | November 29, 2017 |
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| Our National Dance on Market Concentration in Power….and the Resulting Monopolization, Oligopolization, and Cartelization. | October 24, 2017 |
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| Legislators Incessantly Pressuring ERC for Meralco Must Equally Show Concern for Electric Consumers | October 17, 2017 |
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| Viewpoint: Meralco Midnight Contracts an ERC-Meralco Conspiracy? | October 7, 2017 |
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| Meralco’s Generation Cartel is the Issue and Itgoes Beyond Meralco and into Power…..the political kind. (Part 2) | September 28, 2017 |
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| ERC Must be Cured Not Abolished Nor Crippled | September 16, 2017 |
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| Comparing Philippine Electricity Rates vs Asean – Just the Facts | September 8, 2017 |
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| ERC’s Reasons for Postponing CSP Implementation Weak and Not True. | July 18, 2017 |
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| Power Crisis Would be Coming If We don’t Act Now! | July 5, 2017 |
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| Can PCC Step Up to Arrest Rampaging Monopolization and Cartelization of the Power Generation Sector? | June 13, 2017 |
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| The RE Feed-In Tariff Dream that Turned Into a Nightmare for Consumers | May 24, 2017 |
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| Creating the Kind of ERC the Country Needs | May 15, 2017 |
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| The Kind of ERC the Country Needs | May 8, 2017 |
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| DOE MUST PUSH FOR CSP BIDDINGS NOW TO AVOID FUTURE POWER SHORTAGES | April 24, 2017 |
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| UPDATE ON ERC HEARINGS ON MSK PETITION TO MODIFY THE PBR | April 18, 2017 |
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| RCOA AND THE ERC’s MANDATE TO CREATE COMPETITION IN THE POWER SECTOR | February 27, 2017 |
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| Viewpoint: When consumers’ pockets are ‘gouged’ (Solar’s FIT mess) | February 10, 2017 |
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| Viewpoint: Is it goodbye ‘FIT’… and will market forces prevail? (Solar's FIT mess) | February 21, 2017 |
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| ERC Hearings on MSK PBR Petition Start March 17 | February 2, 2017 |
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| Part of Meralco’sP19 Billion Profit Comes From Improper Systems Loss Charges | January 27, 2017 |
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| 10 Good Things the ERC Can Do For Consumers in 2017 For It to Rebuild its Image | January 7, 2017 |
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| The Ugly Picture of Meralco’s Violations of Consumer Rights | November 4, 2016 |
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| Viewpoint: Regulatory Capture of the Energy Regulatory Commission Part 2 | October 26, 2016 |
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| Viewpoint: Regulatory Capture of the ERC Has Resulted in High Rates for Electricity in Mindanao | October 22, 2016 |
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| MSK Petitions ERC for Meralco Refund of P2.39 Billion Overrecovery | October 5, 2016 |
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| ERC’s Extension of CSP Effectivity Could Be Costly for Consumers and A Big Step Back in Drive Against Monopolization of Generation Sector | March 29, 2016 |
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| Remaking the ERC – Purpose before Size | January 4, 2016 |
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| Consumer Group MSK Seeks ERC Repeal of PBR | December 22, 2015 |
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| MSK Holds Rally at ERC for Timely start of Mandatory CSP | November 4, 2015 |
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| Meralco’s Gump at DOE/ERC Hearing on CSP | October 7, 2015 |
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| ERC Now Waivering on CSP? | September 9, 2015 |
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| New ERC Chairman is an Upgrade. He Deserves a Chance | August 8, 2015 |
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| ERC Hears MSK Petition to Subject Power Supply Contracts to Open Competitive Bidding | April 1, 2015 |
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| ERC sets public hearing of MSK petition to bid power supply contracts | March 3, 2015 |
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| Filing Consumer Petitions at ERC a Disturbing Experience | December 31, 2014 |
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| Regulatory Decongestion Essential to an Effective ERC | December 27, 2014 |
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| Consumer Groups Petition ERC for Open Bidding of Power Supply Contracts | December 17, 2014 |
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| Power Rates Can Really Be Reduced by Implementing Better the Current EPIRA Law (Part 2) | January 24, 2023 |
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| A 30% Reduction in Meralco’s Retail Rate is a Just and Achievable Dream. And It Is Totally within the Control of Government! (Part 2) | February 2, 2021 |
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| Viewpoint: Bidding for power supply contracts above board, says Meralco | January 6, 2021 |
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| Quezon Power Mauban’s Rate is now 51% to 82% higher than the other coal plants. Should the DOE and ERC not investigate? | October 17, 2020 |
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| NGCP’s Attempts to Connect Mindoro and Palawan to Its Franchise Area of Luzon Not Totally Objectionable but must be Done Right, and over a Right Transition Period (Part 2) | October 2, 2020 |
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| Inter-Connecting Palawan and Mindoro tothe Luzon Grid – Policy Issues to Resolve and….A Bataan to Manila Submarine Inter-Connection That Maybe More Urgently Needed? (Part 3) | July 29, 2020 |
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| Inter-Connecting Palawan and Mindoro to the Luzon Grid – Tightening the Loose Ends to Make Them Happen (Part 2) | July 26, 2020 |
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| Inter-Connecting Palawan and Mindoro to the Luzon Grid – Tightening the Loose Ends to Make Them Happen (Part 1) | July 24, 2020 |
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| Viewpoint: Meralco asks DOE to delay bidding for 1,800-MW supply | April 29, 2020 |
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| SOLIDARITY WITH THE COUNTRY BY DEFERRING PAYMENTS OF OBLIGATIONS AND DUES FOR THIRTY (30) DAYS AFTER 14 APRIL 2020 FOR THE BENEFIT OF CONSUMERS | March 24, 2020 |
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| Urgent memorandum from the secretary on movement of energy personnel and transport of fuel. | March 16, 2020 |
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| An Uncontrollable 800-Lb Gorilla in Distribution like Meralco is Disruptive of Social Order | December 24, 2019 |
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| HEROES OF OUR TIMES – IN THE POWER SECTOR (Part 1) | December 2, 2019 |
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| TAKEOVER OF ELECTRIC COOPERATIVES – DOE NEEDS TO ESTABLISH RULES…QUICKLY. (Part 1) | July 22, 2019 |
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| Will the ERC and DOE Remake Themselves as a result of the Supreme Court Ruling on Meralco CSP? (Part 3) | June 19, 2019 |
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| The Supreme Court Decision was supposed to be a Consumer’s Checkmate on Meralco’s 7 Midnight PSAs….It Turned Out to be a Stalemate! (Part 2) | June 1, 2019 |
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| The Root Cause of Power Plant Shutdowns are not Technical But Contractual and Financial | May 2, 2019 |
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| Wake Up Calls For All of Us On Power Yellow Alerts…Whose Job is it Anyway? | April 25, 2019 |
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| Yellow and Red Power Alert, Things to Ponder, The Outdated and Onerous Genco Contracts, and Permanent Solutions (Part 2) | April 17, 2019 |
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| DOE SEC CUSI AND THE EC ASSN PHILRECA | March 27, 2019 |
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| Why You would Want to Take Over an Off-Grid EC Franchise Area? It’s a lot of Headaches! 8 reasons why. | February 23, 2019 |
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| DISTURBING QUESTIONS ON MERALCO’S INCREASE IN POWER GENERATION CHARGES THAT WE HOPE THE ERC WILL ASK THEM TO EXPLAIN | February 15, 2019 |
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| The Dance Around the Truth and Reality of the Governments Role in EC Failures | February 12, 2019 |
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| POLICY ISSUES THAT THE GOVERNMENT NEEDS TO RESOLVE BEFORE THE PRIVATIZATION OF ELECTRIC COOPS | February 8, 2019 |
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| The Consumers Dilemma that is Atimonan….The Riddle that is Energy Mix. (Part 1) | October 4, 2018 |
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| Re-Tooling the Philippine Renewable Energy Strategy and Rationalizing FIT Subsidies (Part 2) | September 15, 2018 |
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| Re-Tooling the Philippine Renewable Energy Strategy and Rationalizing FIT Subsidies (Part 1) | September 11, 2018 |
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| Counterpoint: Was the EPIRA Law Successful at 17? | June 29, 2018 |
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| Viewpoint: ‘At Seventeen’: On the anniversary of Epira, have we learned the truth about the power sector? | June 25, 2018 |
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| State of Power Industry or Do WE Have Enough Supply? | March 26, 2018 |
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| HERE WE GO AGAIN: THE OLD GAME OF THREATENING BROWNOUTS TO OVERPOWER CONSUMERS AND GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS | January 18, 2018 |
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| Our National Dance on Market Concentration in Power….and the Resulting Monopolization, Oligopolization, and Cartelization. | October 24, 2017 |
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| Power Crisis Would be Coming If We don’t Act Now! | July 5, 2017 |
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| Can PCC Step Up to Arrest Rampaging Monopolization and Cartelization of the Power Generation Sector? | June 13, 2017 |
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| The Kind of ERC the Country Needs | May 8, 2017 |
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| Wanted: A Clear Energy Mix Strategy for the Country from DOE | May 3, 2017 |
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| DOE MUST PUSH FOR CSP BIDDINGS NOW TO AVOID FUTURE POWER SHORTAGES | April 24, 2017 |
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| Viewpoint: Duterte should focus on PH power plight | March 28, 2017 |
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| Viewpoint: Is it goodbye ‘FIT’… and will market forces prevail? (Solar's FIT mess) | February 21, 2017 |
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| A Caution to DOE Secretary Al Cusi On A Realistic Energy Mix Policy | July 26, 2016 |
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| Petilla's Quiet Big Bang Farewell Gift for Electric Consumers | July 8, 2015 |
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| DOE’S PROPOSED DASAP IS SEC. PETILLA'S POTENTIAL LEGACY | October 27, 2014 |
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