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September 20, 2016

Can there Still be A truly competitive CSP with 5 Major IPP’s Partnering with Meralco PowerGen in a Cartel?

David Celestra Tan, MSK Meralco PowerGen’s cartel has currently proposed 4,100mw of coal projects with five (5) major erstwhile independent power generators that on their own also control about another 5,000mw of power plants. That’s 80% already of the country’s […]
September 8, 2016

It’s Time for a Permanent Energy Planning Commission

David Celestra Tan, MSK 4 September 2016 All these confusion in the energy development strategy for the country happens because the Philippines does not have a long term energy development plan. Every time there is a new government, new energy […]
August 30, 2016

The Betrayal and Treason of Rule 11 of the Epira IRR On Limits of Cross-Ownership

David Celestra Tan, MSK 26 August 2016 How can Meralco, a power distributor, legally arrogate unto itself an unlimited cross-ownership with sister power generators when there was supposed to be a 50% limit? The Epira Law already allowed Meralco under […]
August 22, 2016

IPP’s Surrender to Meralco’s Market Capture and the Rise of the Power Oligarchy

David Celestra Tan, MSK 20 August 2016 “We know we wanted to deregulate, we just forgot why we are doing it!” a USA regulator lamented. That in a nutshell is the state of the deregulated and privatized power sector in […]
August 17, 2016

Stealing President Rody’s Thunder

Meralco’s Seven (7) Midnight Coal Contracts Pre-Empted Duterte Government’s Say in Energy Mix, CSP, Electricity Rate Reduction, and Economic Development. David Celestra Tan, MSK 14 August 2016 Part 2 It is not an exaggeration to say that Meralco, by moving […]
August 15, 2016

Meralco’s Seven (7) Midnight Coal Power Supply Contracts If Allowed will Define us as a People and Nation Beyond Electricity

David Celestra Tan, MSK August 8, 2016 Part 1 The MVP Group Struck like lightning to cartelize the country’s Power Generation sector while the country was engrossed in choosing its new President. It hurriedly signed Seven (7) midnight long term […]
August 8, 2016

Root Cause of Power Plant Shutdowns Financial Not Technical

David Celestra Tan, MSK 6 August 2016 Everytime power supply in the Luzon grid flickers into yellow alert or the WESM spot prices shoot up, it is the shutdowns of power plants that cause them. Calls for investigations will only […]
August 5, 2016

Will MVP’s Legacy Eventually Include Fair Treatment of Consumers?

David Celestra Tan, MSK July 31, 2016   Super Successful business executive Manuel V. Pangilinan, widely known as MVP, recently celebrated his 70th birthday, and was paid a glowing 12 full page tribute in the national broadsheet, Philippine Star, headlined […]