April 17, 2019

Yellow and Red Power Alert, Things to Ponder, The Outdated and Onerous Genco Contracts, and Permanent Solutions (Part 2)

Part 2 of 2   4. The Onerous Guaranteed Payments for Downtimes in the PSA in Main Grid These power plants will predictably blame technical reasons for the outages. These are however the “effects” and not the “root causes”. It […]
April 15, 2019

Yellow and Red Power Alert, Things to Ponder, The Outdated and Onerous Genco Contracts, and Permanent Solutions (Part 1)

part 1 of 2 David Celestra Tan, MSK 11 April 2019 Everyone is again scrambling on what to do in the face of the power shortage alerts. It is yellow, it is red, WESM prices spike, and the always inevitable […]
March 27, 2019

DOE SEC CUSI AND THE EC ASSN PHILRECA

David Celestra Tan, MSK 20 March 2019 We cannot help but notice the continuing tug of war between Department of Energy Secretary Alfonso G.Cusi and the leaders of the Philippine Electric Cooperative Association or Philreca over the chronic non-performance of […]
March 16, 2019

Elephants in the ERC Room…And a Flying Dumbo (Part 3)

David Celestra Tan, MSK 14 March 2019 Part 3 of 3 In addition to the skeletons in the ERC closets, there are elephants in their regulatory room, including a flying dumbo. These are the seven (7) Meralco midnight contracts totaling […]