November 23, 2016

What’s the Big Deal About CSP?

David Celestra Tan, MSK 20 November 2016 You have been reading about CSP. What’s the fuss about? If you thought CSP means Contracting Sister Projects, Contracted Sweetheart Prices, Customers are Screwed in Power, (or Capisanan ng mga Sipsip sa Pangulo), […]
September 23, 2016

Let’s Be Realistic on Nuclear and Solar Power Options

David Celestra Tan, MSK 23 Sept 2016 The new Department of Energy has floated the idea of nuclear power and the reviving of the never operated 600mw Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP) as a lower cost and cleaner power supply […]
September 20, 2016

Can there Still be A truly competitive CSP with 5 Major IPP’s Partnering with Meralco PowerGen in a Cartel?

David Celestra Tan, MSK Meralco PowerGen’s cartel has currently proposed 4,100mw of coal projects with five (5) major erstwhile independent power generators that on their own also control about another 5,000mw of power plants. That’s 80% already of the country’s […]
September 8, 2016

It’s Time for a Permanent Energy Planning Commission

David Celestra Tan, MSK 4 September 2016 All these confusion in the energy development strategy for the country happens because the Philippines does not have a long term energy development plan. Every time there is a new government, new energy […]