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August 10, 2020

Meralco Stones Unturned. An Urgent Need for a COA Audit of Data “Black Boxes” (Part 4/4)

Part 4  David Celestra Tan, MSK 10 August 2020 Meralco’s numbers are giving us an idea on WHAT appears to be being done and WHY. Now the question is HOW Meralco has been able to report in its financial statements […]
August 7, 2020

Stories that Meralco’s Numbers Tell. Comparing Meralco under the MVP Group and Lopez Group (Part 3/4)

Part 3 David Celestra Tan, MSK 7 August 2020 Meralco’s financial data are getting complicated so in the search for more answers we tried to do some forensic style financial analyses, something we learned not from high school but from […]
August 4, 2020

Unraveling Meralco’s Mystifying Sales Numbers – By Methods We Learned in High School (Part 2/4)

Part 2 David Celestra Tan, MSK 4 August 2020   Meralco’s annual financial performance and status is audited and certified to by SGV, the country’s premier auditing firm. We have to trust that the income statement that they are certifying […]
August 1, 2020

Unraveling Meralco’s Mystifying Sales Numbers – By Methods We Learned in High School (Part 1/4)

Part 1 David Celestra Tan, MSK 1 August 2020 One thing we started learning in high school is analyzing and solving problems. And proving hypotheses in lab experiments. We were taught that one approach to solving seemingly complicated problems is […]
July 29, 2020

Inter-Connecting Palawan and Mindoro tothe Luzon Grid – Policy Issues to Resolve and….A Bataan to Manila Submarine Inter-Connection That Maybe More Urgently Needed? (Part 3)

Part 3 David Celestra Tan, MSK 29 July 2020  Palawan and Mindoro Need both On- Island generation AND inter-connection.  Powering these islands are not an either or questions. On island generation as it is now or imported power from Luzon […]
July 26, 2020

Inter-Connecting Palawan and Mindoro to the Luzon Grid – Tightening the Loose Ends to Make Them Happen (Part 2)

Part 2 David Celestra Tan, MSK 26 July 2020 If inter-connecting Palawan and Mindoro islands to the Luzon grid is an official DOE Policy and NGCP, the concessionaire, has the interest and the resources to build them, why hasn’t it […]
July 24, 2020

Inter-Connecting Palawan and Mindoro to the Luzon Grid – Tightening the Loose Ends to Make Them Happen (Part 1)

Part 1 David Celestra Tan, MSK 24 July 2020 The Department of Energy has a sweeping plan to connect most of the off-grid areas to the national grid from Luzon to Basilan in its power development plans. We are not […]
July 22, 2020

Counterpoint: BIPCOR belies Bantayan Electric’s claims

By Manila Standard Business – July 19, 2020 at 09:30 pm Bantayan Island Power Corp. described as baseless and irrelevant the statement of Bantayan Island Electric Cooperative general manager Lee Rivera on the exclusion of the power supplier from the […]