November 6, 2014

P3 Reduction in Meralco’s Rate An Achievable Dream!

87% or P2.60 will not even come from Meralco’s pockets but from various pass-on charges on which Meralco had been claiming for many years they don’t make money and only act as collectors. Generation charge, transmission charge, systems loss, VAT, […]
November 5, 2014

RE FIT-All added to electric bills starting January

from Manila Bulletin by Myrna Velasco, November 4, 2014 Filipino consumers will soon see an additional line item in their electric bills to be labeled as feed-in-tariff allowance (FIT-All) pegged at P0.0406 per kilowatt- hour (kwh). The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) […]
October 31, 2014

Security of Power Supply and The Futility of Sec. 71

David Celestra Tan 31 October 2014 While a lot of attention is on invoking Epira Law’s Section 71 to grant emergency powers to the President of the Philippines to deal with an “imminent power crisis” this coming summer, there are […]
October 27, 2014

DOE’S PROPOSED DASAP IS SEC. PETILLA’S POTENTIAL LEGACY

David Celestra Tan Updated 27 October 2014 One of the hallmarks of MSK’s recommendation to reduce the cost of electricity in the Meralco area by P3 per kwh is opening the power supply contracts of these private distribution utilities to […]