December 6, 2018

OUTDATED ANTI-CONSUMER TERMS IN BOT-Type PSA Contracts Needs to be Prohibited (Part 2)

David Celestra Tan, MSK 4 December 2018 Part 2/2 History of Guarantee Payments during Downtimes There was a time in the power crisis of 1990s when these guaranteed capacity payments are necessary to encourage power plant investors, most of them […]
November 12, 2018

Electric Coops need Better Management More Than Private Sector Money

David Celestra Tan, MSK 12 November 2018 Electric coops nationwide are providing unsatisfactory service and higher rates leading to popular calls for their privatization. But why are they failing and what will privatization give them? Commonly believed or assumed is, […]
November 2, 2018

The Unreachable Promised Land of Lower Power Costs….And Options for the BNPP.

David Celestra Tan, MSK 1 November 2018 Lower Power Costs (LPC) is a consumer nirvana that is being promised to the public for the last 21 years since they started debating the deregulation and privatization of the power sector. Everytime […]
October 17, 2018

The Solar Para Sa Bayan Mini-Grid Franchise (H.B. 8179) is a Trojan Horse (Part 3)

For People and Country, We Need an “Inclusive” Not “Non-Exclusive” Mini-Grids Instead   David Celestra Tan, MSK 14 October 2018   The ongoing full-scale lobby by SPSBC for a supposed “non-exclusive” franchise including its’ new strategy to “invite” hundreds of […]