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 […]
August 30, 2016

The Betrayal and Treason of Rule 11 of the Epira IRR On Limits of Cross-Ownership

David Celestra Tan, MSK 26 August 2016 How can Meralco, a power distributor, legally arrogate unto itself an unlimited cross-ownership with sister power generators when there was supposed to be a 50% limit? The Epira Law already allowed Meralco under […]