March 28, 2017

Viewpoint: Duterte should focus on PH power plight

By Andy Mukherjee – Published March 24, 2017, 10:00 PM (Bloomberg Gadfly) Want to switch on the TV? Wait for the entire family to gather in the evening. That’s one of the strategies that Philippine Energy Secretary Alfonso Cusi says his […]
January 13, 2017

Simple But Deeper Issues in Power are Part of High Power Cost Problem

David Celestra Tan, MSK 12 January 2017 Energy Writer Myrna Velasco’s two part series on power policy and high power cost that appeared in the Manila Bulletin touched on the usual issues bedeviling the power sector and the country’s search […]
December 23, 2016

Viewpoint: Reducing Rates for Electricity in Mindanao

by David A. Tauli Mindanao Coalition of Power Consumers Lately, we have heard proposals, mostly foolish, coming from the Department of Energy and from the Mindanao Development Authority that supposedly will reduce the rates for electric power supply in Mindanao. […]
November 21, 2016

Viewpoint: No to the WESM in Mindanao

David A. Tauli, Mindanao Coalition of Power Consumers A clamor has been raised to establish a wholesale electricity spot market (WESM) in Mindanao, now that there is an excess of capacity of power plants. This paper shows that: (1) The […]