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June 1, 2019

The Supreme Court Decision was supposed to be a Consumer’s Checkmate on Meralco’s 7 Midnight PSAs….It Turned Out to be a Stalemate! (Part 2)

Aya Jallorina, ABP 30 May 2019 In Part 1 MSK had written about the long needed constitutional clarifications that were provided by the Supreme Court in its decision on the questionable ERC extension of the CSP policy. It  can illuminate […]
May 29, 2019

The Supreme Court Decision was supposed to be a Consumer’s Checkmate on Meralco’s 7 Midnight PSAs….It Turned Out to be a Stalemate! Bummer! (Part 1)

David Celestra Tan, MSK 26 May 2019 Consumers and Cause Oriented Groups were overjoyed when the Supreme Court issued a decision last 17 May 2019 granting the petition of Alyansa Para saBagongPilipinas (ABP)to declare the extension of the CSP policy […]
May 2, 2019

The Root Cause of Power Plant Shutdowns are not Technical But Contractual and Financial

2 May 2019 POSITION PAPER ON LONG TERM SOLUTIONS FOR STABLE POWER SUPPLY MatuwidnaSingilsaKuryente Consumer Alliance Inc. Submitted to: The Joint Congressional Power Committee Hon. Senator Sherwin Gatchalian Hon. Carlos Uybarreta, Congressman, 1Care Party-list Public Hearing May 2, 2019 Dear […]
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Yellow and Red Power Alert, Things to Ponder, The Outdated and Onerous Genco Contracts, and Permanent Solutions (Part 2)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Yellow and Red Power Alert, Things to Ponder, The Outdated and Onerous Genco Contracts, and Permanent Solutions (Part 1)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 […]
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 […]