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June 8, 2020

What’s Wrong with Meralco Charging Full Residential Rates for Higher Electricity Consumption While In Covid-19 Quarantine?

David Celestra Tan, MSK 8 June 2020 In our previous posting, we disclosed our findings from Meralco’s rates and charges that an approximately 702 million kwh of electricity that it used to supply to the high use industrial and large […]
June 5, 2020

Meralco’s Windfall Profits In Lockdown Months of P2.1B a month? The Truth in Numbers. (Part 2)

Meralco must Reduce by 30% its Charge on Additional Covid-19 Consumption. Part 2   David Celestra Tan, MSK 4 June 2020 In our previous article, we observed that the alarming rise in the May billing of Meralco was due more […]
June 1, 2020

Meralco Rates Analyzed. The Truth in Numbers

David Celestra Tan, MSK May 30, 2020 Consumer Groups including Bayan Muna and P2P are up in arms about the complaints of many Meralco consumers that their power bill jumped 2 to 4 times in just one month in May. […]
May 21, 2020

In A Socially Distanced Economy, Financially Distanced Consumers Need Even More Protection To Survive and Thrive. (Part 2)

David Celestra Tan, MSK 18 May 2020 Part 2 Need for more consumer vigilance The challenge to consumer groups to rise up and become even more vigilant, fervent, and pervasive at exposing and fighting abuses would have to be a […]
May 20, 2020

In A Socially Distanced Economy, Financially Distanced Consumers Need Even More Protection. (Part 1)

David Celestra Tan, MSK 18 May 2020 Part 1 In our not too distant past,social distancing implied some kind of psychological imbalance. If you are an average person you are called “praning”, “mahiyain”, or “anti-social.” If you can afford a […]
April 29, 2020

Viewpoint: Meralco asks DOE to delay bidding for 1,800-MW supply

By Lenie Lectura -April 28, 2020 from Business Mirror THE Manila Electric Company (Meralco) is asking the Department of Energy (DOE) to delay the conduct of a competitive auction for 1,800 megawatts (MW) of power capacity requirement. Meralco President Ray […]
April 22, 2020

Remaking a New Philippines and a New Filipino….Musings of an Eternal Optimist in A Post Coronavirus Period.

David Celestra Tan, MSK 22 April 2020 Let me start my optimism with a pessimism. We should be prepared that there will really be no post-coronavirus period per se. Life for humanity and Filipinos including the very rich nations of […]
April 11, 2020

The Extension of Bill Collections of Electric Coops Injected an Unintended Virus that Need Immediate Reassessment….Or it can Put Them and Their Power Suppliers Unnecessarily in ICU.

David Celestra Tan, MSK 11 April 2020   While waiting for a COVID-19 Vaccine, the most effective interim measures are social distancing, home-in-place, sanitation, and testing. The government had done a good job, considering the limits of our resources, to […]