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November 2, 2018

The Unreachable Promised Land of Lower Power Costs….And Options for the BNPP.

David Celestra Tan, MSK 1 November 2018 Lower Power Costs (LPC) is a consumer nirvana that is being promised to the public for the last 21 years since they started debating the deregulation and privatization of the power sector. Everytime […]
October 22, 2018

Viewpoint: An Open letter to the DOE Secretary on what to do about the grand theft of consumers’ money in the amount of more than 5.0 billion pesos every year that is being carried out by 15 electric cooperatives in Mindanao

David A. Tauli, President, Mindanao Coalition 19 October 2018 SIR: This is to suggest to the Department of Energy that they should carry out legal actions against the ERC commissioners and against officials in the DOE in the past administration, […]
October 17, 2018

The Solar Para Sa Bayan Mini-Grid Franchise (H.B. 8179) is a Trojan Horse (Part 3)

For People and Country, We Need an “Inclusive” Not “Non-Exclusive” Mini-Grids Instead   David Celestra Tan, MSK 14 October 2018   The ongoing full-scale lobby by SPSBC for a supposed “non-exclusive” franchise including its’ new strategy to “invite” hundreds of […]
October 14, 2018

An Open Letter to President Duterte on ERCs Intended CSP Rules

14 October 2018 An Open Letter to President Rodrigo R. Duterte CC: ERC Chair Agnes Devanadera By Matuwid na Singil sa Kuryente Consumer Alliance Inc. Subject: Proposed ERC Rules Allowing Unsolicited Proposals and Swiss Challenge in Procurement of Power Supply […]
October 11, 2018

The Solar Para Sa Bayan Mini-Grid Franchise is a Trojan Horse (Part 2)

David Celestra Tan, MSK 10 October 2018 Important Unanswered Questions On A Mini-Grid Franchise for SPSBC In this our internet age many brick and mortar industries have been disrupted by “game changing” and “out of the box” innovations using the […]
October 8, 2018

SOLAR PARA SA BAYAN MINI-GRID FRANCHISE IS A TROJAN HORSE (Part 1)

David Celestra Tan 8 October 2018 Part 1 When the Congressional Committee on Legislative Franchises swiftly passed House Bill 8179 that is intended to give the Leviste owned Solar Para Sa Bayan (SPSB) corporation a nationwide franchise to set-up electric […]
October 5, 2018

The Consumers Dilemma that is Atimonan….The Riddle that is Energy Mix. (Part 2)

David Celestra Tan, MSK 3 October 2018 Part 2 To see things in their whole perspective as a package of 3,551mw power supply contracts for Meralco’s own sister company Meralco PowerGen and their cartel partners, let us compare the ERC […]
October 4, 2018

The Consumers Dilemma that is Atimonan….The Riddle that is Energy Mix. (Part 1)

David Celestra Tan, MSK 3 October 2018 Part 1 What do Meralco consumers do now that the Atimonan One will most likely be approved in the next days, probably by the 9th?  After all the Atimonan One power supply contract […]