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January 10, 2021

Counterpoint: Meralco’s CSP Exclusionary Bidding Schemes the Exact Opposite of “Above Board”. Instead We Challenge You with a way for you to get 50% of Meralco energy needs. We hope you are game.

David Celestra Tan, MSK 9 January 2021 Meralco, the ever master hoodwinker, is trying to make the public believe that the competitive selection process for its power procurement of its 6,500mw power needs, which rates are paid for by the […]
January 6, 2021

Viewpoint: Bidding for power supply contracts above board, says Meralco

By Ronnel W. Domingo – 04:05 AM January 06, 2021 from Philippine Daily Inquirer / @inquirerdotnet Manila Electric Co. (Meralco) maintains that its ongoing efforts to secure additional electricity supply through competitive bidding of contracts are above board as these […]
December 28, 2020

Why Public Interest Deserves the Investigation of Meralco’s Power Purchases from QPPL at Excessive Rates

David Celestra Tan, MSK 27 December 2020 It may be due to the holidays or the Covid19 pandemic but it has been months since your organization raised the alarm about the excessive power generation rates that Meralco has been paying […]
December 23, 2020

Coal Is Supposed To Be Cheap and so will be Nuclear. But the Prices do not Trickle down to Meralco consumers – 3 Reasons why.

David Celestra Tan, MSK 23 December 2020 Coal is the dirtiest power we can have and the number one cause of global warming. The capitalists who don’t mind engulfing us with this dirty power justifies that it is the cheapest.  […]
December 12, 2020

CounterPoint: Meralco: Smarter Than Most of Us… and Outsmarting the Government?

David Celestra Tan, MSK 10 December 2020 These are our clarifications to some of the noteworthy points raised by Mr. Ben Kritz in his column.   1.Viewpoint: “First of all, the allegations were originally raised back in August, but received […]
December 10, 2020

Viewpoint: Meralco: Smarter than high-schoolers

Ben Kritz, Rough Trade Column Manila Times 6 December 2020 There are few things that will hold my attention for hours quite like a suggestion that Meralco, the electric company everyone loves to hate, has committed some foul in order […]
December 6, 2020

What Gives? Meralco Announced a 0.46% Decrease in November. WESM Decreased by 36%. QPPL Increased by 18.49%.

David Celestra Tan, MSK 5 December 2020 “We are happy to report a P0.04-per-kWh reduction in the rates of our customers for this month of November,” Meralco spokesman Joe Zaldarriaga said. In its press release in the Manila Standard and […]
December 1, 2020

Why there is a need to Investigate the QPL and Meralco Billings for 2020?

David Celestra Tan, MSK 1 December 2020 Your organization MSK wrote about its findings on the Quezon Power Philippine Ltd’s (QPPL) hard- not- to- notice disparity in billings compared with Meralco’s other coal power suppliers this year 2020. We had […]