September 13, 2019

Meralco’s Successful 1,200mw CSP…a Prelude to A Negotiated 1,200mw Atimonan One

David Celestra Tan, MSK 13 September 2019 Meralco’s media machinery is on overdrive hyping the successful holding of their CSP for 1,200mw of power supply. It appears successful for Meralco and its generation partners, particularly San Miguel. Whether or not […]
April 25, 2019

Wake Up Calls For All of Us On Power Yellow Alerts…Whose Job is it Anyway?

David Celestra Tan, MSK 23 April 2019 The Yellow and Red alerts of power shortages should wake up all of us towards the reality that a power crisis can be upon us and can have devastating impact our economic boom […]
December 3, 2018

Outdated Anti-Consumer Terms in BOT-Type PSA Contracts Need to be Prohibited (Part 1)

David Celestra Tan, MSK 30 November 2018 Part 1/2 Part of the complex formula for the generation rates that are charged to us consumers by Meralco is something called Capital Recovery Fee or CRF. That is to allow these power […]
November 2, 2018

The Unreachable Promised Land of Lower Power Costs….And Options for the BNPP.

David Celestra Tan, MSK 1 November 2018 Lower Power Costs (LPC) is a consumer nirvana that is being promised to the public for the last 21 years since they started debating the deregulation and privatization of the power sector. Everytime […]