January 21, 2015

Clear and Present Danger of Meralco’s Monopolization and Sister Company Generation

David Celestra Tan 18 January 2015 The clear and present danger of Meralco’s bilateral contract monopolization and sister company generation starkly stares all of us in the face. The electricity consumers, government regulators and legislators, and Meralco itself, except the […]
January 15, 2015

It Will Take a Village to Reduce Meralco’s Rates

By David Celestra Tan MSK has studied and identified the various charges that have been adding up to high electricity rates for Filipinos in the Meralco franchise area that serves 72% of the electricity needs of Luzon island. These are […]
January 8, 2015

How Much Should Meralco be Allowed to Profit as a Public Service Utility?

by David Celestra Tan 2 January 2015 Part I Let us start the New Year by going back to the basics of Meralco’s rates, which is how much should they, as a franchised public service utility, be allowed to profit? […]
January 3, 2015

Are Electric Consumers Double Charged for Ancillary Services by NGCP and its dispatch of MRU?

David Celestra Tan January 2, 2014 In September and October 2014 Meralco’s purchases from WESM reached astonishing levels of P43.05 and P35.60 per kwh, even higher than the P33 per kwh that wrought havoc on the generation rates in Meralco’s […]