March 27, 2019

DOE SEC CUSI AND THE EC ASSN PHILRECA

David Celestra Tan, MSK 20 March 2019 We cannot help but notice the continuing tug of war between Department of Energy Secretary Alfonso G.Cusi and the leaders of the Philippine Electric Cooperative Association or Philreca over the chronic non-performance of […]
March 16, 2019

Elephants in the ERC Room…And a Flying Dumbo (Part 3)

David Celestra Tan, MSK 14 March 2019 Part 3 of 3 In addition to the skeletons in the ERC closets, there are elephants in their regulatory room, including a flying dumbo. These are the seven (7) Meralco midnight contracts totaling […]
February 28, 2019

Meralco Skeletons in the ERC Closet…. and A Humble Message to the New Commissioners (Part 2)

David Celestra Tan, MSK 28 February 2019 Part 2 of 3  3. The Unfairness of Allowing “Systems Loss” averaging and its Non-transparent monthly computation by Meralco The ERC limits the systems loss charge to be 8.5% and Meralco had been […]
February 26, 2019

Meralco Skeletons in the ERC Closet, Elephants in the Room (Part 1)

David Celestra Tan, MSK 27 February 2019 Part 1 of 3 We have an entirely new set of ERC Commissioners except one and we hope it will be a new dawn of enlightened and balanced regulation, freed from the decade […]