January 19, 2019

DoE, ERC allow Peco to keep Iloilo service

By Alena Mae S. Flores – January 18, 2019 at 8:50 pm from manilastandard.net The Department of Energy and Energy Regulatory Commission on Friday jointly allowed Panay Electric Co. to continue serving the electricity requirements of Iloilo City after its […]
January 1, 2019

After hurdling 2018’s regulatory crisis, power industry players are ready for Year of the Pig

By Lenie Lectura – January 1, 2019 from Business Mirror THE country’s power supply remained stable for the past 12 months despite a crippled Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) that left the agency “powerless in making decisions critical to the energy sector.” […]
December 11, 2018

WE APPEAL TO THE ERC TO LIFT THE SUSPENSION OF ITS NEW GUIDELINES CORRECTING THE METHOD OF DETERMINING CONCENTRATION OF OWNERSHIP, OPERATION, AND CONTROL OF INSTALLED GENERATION CAPACITY.

David Celestra Tan, MSK 11 December 2018 In the waning days of the former ERC Chair Zenaida Ducut in 2015, the ERC surprisingly made an effort to correct one of the great illegalities in the implementation of the EPIRA Law […]
December 6, 2018

OUTDATED ANTI-CONSUMER TERMS IN BOT-Type PSA Contracts Needs to be Prohibited (Part 2)

David Celestra Tan, MSK 4 December 2018 Part 2/2 History of Guarantee Payments during Downtimes There was a time in the power crisis of 1990s when these guaranteed capacity payments are necessary to encourage power plant investors, most of them […]