MSK Viewpoints

December 10, 2020

Viewpoint: Meralco: Smarter than high-schoolers

Ben Kritz, Rough Trade Column Manila Times 6 December 2020 There are few things that will hold my attention for hours quite like a suggestion that Meralco, the electric company everyone loves to hate, has committed some foul in order […]
December 6, 2020

What Gives? Meralco Announced a 0.46% Decrease in November. WESM Decreased by 36%. QPPL Increased by 18.49%.

David Celestra Tan, MSK 5 December 2020 “We are happy to report a P0.04-per-kWh reduction in the rates of our customers for this month of November,” Meralco spokesman Joe Zaldarriaga said. In its press release in the Manila Standard and […]
December 1, 2020

Why there is a need to Investigate the QPL and Meralco Billings for 2020?

David Celestra Tan, MSK 1 December 2020 Your organization MSK wrote about its findings on the Quezon Power Philippine Ltd’s (QPPL) hard- not- to- notice disparity in billings compared with Meralco’s other coal power suppliers this year 2020. We had […]
November 24, 2020

Meralco Should be Honest with the Consumers, Regulators, and Government

David Celestra Tan, MSK 23 November 2020 Your organization MSK, together with Bayan Muna, had asked Meralco to explain why the generation rate of Quezon Power Ltd had skyrocketed to an average of P6.73 per kwh, when all the other […]
November 20, 2020

Did Meralco and San Miguel Conspire to Overcharge Consumers P1.6 Billion for Masinloc Plant in 2018?

David Celestra Tan, MSK 19 November 2020 Meralco consumers normally don’t get a fair deal everytime Meralco buys power from one of its sister companies or partners. This seems the reason Meralco’s publicity machinery works very hard to tell people […]
November 6, 2020

Aboitiz Behaves Differently as Cross Owners In the Visayan Electric Corp. of Cebu

Part 4 David Celestra Tan, MSK 7 November 2020 Some consumers and businessmen in Cebu that we met about 4 years ago in an ERC hearing read about the wonderful job that the Aboitiz group was doing as a power […]
November 3, 2020

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!

Part 3 David Celestra Tan, MSK 2 November 2020 Cross ownership between a distribution utility like Meralco and its power generators was supposed to be prohibited by the Epira Law. But the lobbyists succeeded in putting many language loopholes in […]
October 29, 2020

Meralco Customers Getting Hammered by Sweetheart Charging of Power from Partners EGAT of Thailand and San Miguel.

Part 2 David Celestra Tan, MSK 29 October 2020 Meralco’s franchise as our electric service provider requires that they supply us power in the least cost manner. This means the power generation charge that they will pass on to us […]
October 17, 2020

Quezon Power Mauban’s Rate is now 51% to 82% higher than the other coal plants. Should the DOE and ERC not investigate?

David Celestra Tan, MSK 17 October 2020 This year 2020, Meralco likes to boast that its generation rate had come down from P4.9039 per kwh in January to P4.12 per kwh in August, a 16% reduction. They like to point […]
October 2, 2020

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)

David Celestra Tan, MSK 27 September 2020   Continuation CONCERNS OF CONSUMERS 1. MSK as a consumer advocacy group is notper se againstthe idea of inter-connecting these two large off-grid islands to the main grid and Luzon. It just needs […]