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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 […]
February 23, 2019

Why You would Want to Take Over an Off-Grid EC Franchise Area? It’s a lot of Headaches! 8 reasons why.

David Celestra Tan, MSK 23 February 2019 The 121 Electric Cooperative community is abuzz with the seeming frenzy in applying for Legislative Franchises for electric distribution utilities since the apparent success of a new franchise holder in winning the 25 […]
February 15, 2019

DISTURBING QUESTIONS ON MERALCO’S INCREASE IN POWER GENERATION CHARGES THAT WE HOPE THE ERC WILL ASK THEM TO EXPLAIN

David Celestra Tan, MSK 15 February 2019 Meralco’s average rate is increasing this month by P0.5682 from P9.8385 Per kwh to P10.4067 per kwh. Meralco says Nothing to worry, it will cost the average consumer of 200kwh “only” an additional […]
February 12, 2019

The Dance Around the Truth and Reality of the Governments Role in EC Failures

David Celestra Tan, MSK 11 February 2019 We can only solve a problem if we identify, recognize and willing to face them and get to their root causes. In this posting MSK will try to help resolve the issue by […]
February 8, 2019

POLICY ISSUES THAT THE GOVERNMENT NEEDS TO RESOLVE BEFORE THE PRIVATIZATION OF ELECTRIC COOPS

David Celestra Tan, MSK February 6, 2019 We are getting ahead of ourselves on the issue of privatizing electric coops. None the least is whether this will be even good for the consumers. Second is whether the takeover by the […]
January 27, 2019

Should Your Electric Coop Franchise be Cancelled And Privatized? Complexities of Taking Over EC’s in Off-Grid Areas? (Part 2)

David Celestra Tan, MSK 22 January 2019 The impending takeover by MORE Electric of the franchise for the distribution of electricity in Iloilo City, to replace its 95 year provider and franchise holder PECO had sent shockwaves through the 122 […]