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July 26, 2016
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David Celestra Tan, MSK 25 July 2016 Dear Secretary Cusi: You are coming into the Department of Energy that had been touting an Energy Mix objective of 30% coal, 30% natural gas, 30% renewable Energy, and 10% all others. We […]
July 18, 2016
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David Celestra Tan, MSK 17 July 2016 A year ago in July 2015 Meralco urgently petitioned the ERC to reduce its distribution rate by 10.4% to P1.3939 per kwh from P1.5822 that was approved for the Third Regulatory period of […]
July 9, 2016
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David Celestra Tan, MSK 9 July 2016 When the subject of reducing power rates come up, Meralco gratuitously suggests “reduce the VAT taxes”. When there was pressure to reduce generation rates, they suggested that the government should eliminate the taxes […]
July 7, 2016
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David Celestra Tan July 7, 2016 The debate on distributed generation versus centralized generation dates back to the time of Thomas Alba Edison, the inventor of electricity, when he built the Pearl Street Station in New York in 1882. Napocor’s […]
July 4, 2016
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David Celestra Tan Updated July 4, 2016 One fundamental strategic issue in Philippine power development that maybe revisited by newly appointed Energy Secretary Alfonso Cusi is the long time thinking that the nation should build big and bigger plants wherever […]
June 28, 2016
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David Celestra Tan 26 June 2016 Solar proponents have been waving the clean energy and climate change flags. They got a hefty rate of P9.68 in the first FIT round and P8.68 in the 2nd. Now they want 7.68 for […]
May 17, 2016
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David Celestra Tan, MSK 15 May 2016 Presidential Candidate Rodrigo Duterte’s message of stopping crime, corruption, and drugs captured the imagination of the Filipino people. He resonated with an apparently underestimated latent yearning of the Filipinos for hope for solutions […]
April 22, 2016
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David Celestra Tan, MSK All electric consumers of whatever leanings for the Presidency, Grace Poe, Mar Roxas, Duterte or Binay, or party, LP, UNA, NPC, PDP, must insert in their Senatorial Votes candidates Carlos Jericho Petilla (No. 41) and Neri […]