January 24, 2023

Power Rates Can Really Be Reduced by Implementing Better the Current EPIRA Law (Part 2)

We have a Dream. David Celestra Tan, MSK 21 January 2023 Part 2 After more than 20 years of being told that the power sector and the EPIRA Law are so complex and difficult to shepherd towards one direction, we […]
January 21, 2023

Better Implementation of the EPIRA Law, Not Amendment, will Be Safer and Better for the Country and Consumers (Part 1)

David Celestra Tan, MSK 10 January 2023 Part 1 Calls to Amend the Epira law are again gathering up steam. Understandably, the Electric Power Industry Reform Act (EPIRA Law) of June 2001 or Republic Act 9136, had failed for 21 […]
December 5, 2017

COAL OR NATURAL GAS IS NOT AN EITHER OR QUESTION

David Celestra Tan, MSK December 5, 2017 There is an ongoing battle for the minds of the people and policy makers between pro-coal and pro-LNG. It is however not an either or question. The country needs a diversified energy source […]
November 29, 2017

New ERC Chair Agnes VST Devanadera Will be Good if She Listens to Her Own Heart and Soul

David Celestra Tan, MSK 28 November 2017 It is a good sign that President Duterte took time to choose carefully the new Chairman of the Energy Regulatory Commission in whose hands the fate of 100 million electric consumers would depend. […]