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December 18, 2019

Whats Wrong with Meralco’s Atimonan One Project And How to Resolve it

David Celestra Tan, MSK 18 December 2019 Whats Wrong with Meralco’s 1,200mw Greenfield CSP? It is not that they specified Super critical high efficiency and low emission technology. And it is not that there was no one else who submitted […]
December 10, 2019

TRAITORS OF OUR TIMES – IN THE POWER SECTOR

David Celestra Tan, MSK 8 December 2019 To say that the current Philippine power sector is a mess is an understatement. This supposed privatized and deregulated power industry is so only in form and pretention. Even before they finalized the […]
December 4, 2019

HEROES OF OUR TIMES – IN THE POWER SECTOR (Part 2)

David Celestra Tan, MSK 29 November 2019 Part 2 3. Ex ERC Chair Zenaida Ducut (And Former ERC Executive Director Nino Juan) Surprised? We the consumers were not really happy with Ex Chair Ducut for most of her tenure. Mainly […]
December 2, 2019

HEROES OF OUR TIMES – IN THE POWER SECTOR (Part 1)

David Celestra Tan, MSK 29 November 2019 Part 1 The way we the electric consumers are being treated and overcharged, the way our distribution utilities and sister generators and partners try all sorts of schemes  to outsmart government attempts to […]
November 18, 2019

Viewpoint: Advisory to Mindanao Power Consumers on the Mindanao WESM Being Proposed by the IEMOP

By David A. Tauli, President – November 16, 2019 Mindanao Coalition of Power Consumers Note first that the Wholesale Electricity Spot Market in Mindanao is still being proposed for establishment by the Independent Electricity Market Operator of the Philippines (IEMOP). […]
November 7, 2019

Viewpoint: Competitive Selection Process for Power Supply Agreements: The Supreme Court Decision and the Responses of the Energy Regulatory Commission and the Distribution Utility Companies

By David A. Tauli President, Mindanao Coalition of Power Consumers 1. The Supreme Court issued its final decision on July 2019 which required all power supply agreements submitted to the Energy Regulatory Commission after June 30, 2015 to comply with […]
November 1, 2019

Headline: Duterte orders strict compliance by power plants.

What President Duterte Said and Did not Say about Meralco’s More Advanced Technologies. Meralco’s 2nd CSP Round   David Celestra Tan, MSK 30 October 2019 President Rodrigo Duterte was invited to the recent inauguration of Meralco PowerGen’s 500mw San Buenaventura […]
October 13, 2019

Meralco’s CSP HELE HELE with Super Critical Coal Technology

David Celestra Tan, MSK 11 October 2019 Meralco has been super publicizing its adoption of this ultra super critical coal technology with high efficiency and low emission (HELE) for the 1,200mw Atimonan One project. It is supposed to be the […]