December 20, 2018

Concerns of Cebu Electric Consumers

David Celestra Tan, MSK 20 December 2018 We have a large consumer in Cebu who had been sending us his comments and questions on rates in his area. He also has apparently business operations in Manila and had been able […]
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OUTDATED ANTI-CONSUMER TERMS IN BOT-Type PSA Contracts Needs to be Prohibited (Part 2)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 […]
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Outdated Anti-Consumer Terms in BOT-Type PSA Contracts Need to be Prohibited (Part 1)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 […]