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January 21, 2019

Should your Electric Distribution Utility or Electric Coop be Replaced? And What’s The Right and Democratic Way to do it? (Part 1)

David Celestra Tan, MSK 18 January 2019   The failure of the Panay Electric Company (PECO) of Iloilo City to secure a renewal of their franchise that is expiring January 19, 2019 is now in the public’s mind. And raising […]
December 20, 2018

Concerns of Cebu Electric Consumers

David Celestra Tan, MSK 20 December 2018 We have a large consumer in Cebu who had been sending us his comments and questions on rates in his area. He also has apparently business operations in Manila and had been able […]
December 11, 2018

WE APPEAL TO THE ERC TO LIFT THE SUSPENSION OF ITS NEW GUIDELINES CORRECTING THE METHOD OF DETERMINING CONCENTRATION OF OWNERSHIP, OPERATION, AND CONTROL OF INSTALLED GENERATION CAPACITY.

David Celestra Tan, MSK 11 December 2018 In the waning days of the former ERC Chair Zenaida Ducut in 2015, the ERC surprisingly made an effort to correct one of the great illegalities in the implementation of the EPIRA Law […]
December 10, 2018

Viewpoint: A Response to the Proposed Bill for Micro-Grids

Establishment of Micro-grids Supplied with Electricity from Solar PV Power Plants with Battery Storage will Result in Expensive Rates for Consumers in the Micro-grids By David A. Tauli, President, Mindanao Coalition of Power Consumers The economic rationale for the establishment […]
December 6, 2018

OUTDATED ANTI-CONSUMER TERMS IN BOT-Type PSA Contracts Needs to be Prohibited (Part 2)

David Celestra Tan, MSK 4 December 2018 Part 2/2 History of Guarantee Payments during Downtimes There was a time in the power crisis of 1990s when these guaranteed capacity payments are necessary to encourage power plant investors, most of them […]
December 3, 2018

Outdated Anti-Consumer Terms in BOT-Type PSA Contracts Need to be Prohibited (Part 1)

David Celestra Tan, MSK 30 November 2018 Part 1/2 Part of the complex formula for the generation rates that are charged to us consumers by Meralco is something called Capital Recovery Fee or CRF. That is to allow these power […]
November 20, 2018

Consumer Hopes In The New ERC – Rise of a Regulatory Phoenix

David Celestra Tan, MSK 19 November 2018 From the ashes of the Salazar-era ERC that flamingly crashed to the ground amidst the Meralco midnights CSP scandal, we hope will rise the Phoenix of a new ERC with an enlightened regulatory […]
November 12, 2018

Electric Coops need Better Management More Than Private Sector Money

David Celestra Tan, MSK 12 November 2018 Electric coops nationwide are providing unsatisfactory service and higher rates leading to popular calls for their privatization. But why are they failing and what will privatization give them? Commonly believed or assumed is, […]