April 25, 2019

Wake Up Calls For All of Us On Power Yellow Alerts…Whose Job is it Anyway?

David Celestra Tan, MSK 23 April 2019 The Yellow and Red alerts of power shortages should wake up all of us towards the reality that a power crisis can be upon us and can have devastating impact our economic boom […]
April 17, 2019

Yellow and Red Power Alert, Things to Ponder, The Outdated and Onerous Genco Contracts, and Permanent Solutions (Part 2)

Part 2 of 2   4. The Onerous Guaranteed Payments for Downtimes in the PSA in Main Grid These power plants will predictably blame technical reasons for the outages. These are however the “effects” and not the “root causes”. It […]
April 15, 2019

Yellow and Red Power Alert, Things to Ponder, The Outdated and Onerous Genco Contracts, and Permanent Solutions (Part 1)

part 1 of 2 David Celestra Tan, MSK 11 April 2019 Everyone is again scrambling on what to do in the face of the power shortage alerts. It is yellow, it is red, WESM prices spike, and the always inevitable […]
April 5, 2019

Rethinking the ERC plan to shift to “fixed price”generation rates…And the “30% of Project Cost” Exemption from CSP!!

David Celestra Tan, MSK 2 April 2019 The new ERC has been hard at work on a new guideline or template for the contracting of power generation supply agreements. Without exaggeration this guideline would be one of the big signals to […]