December 27, 2014

Regulatory Decongestion Essential to an Effective ERC

David Celestra Tan 26 December 2014 To be fair to the ERC, the Epira dumped on it an inordinate amount of responsibilities to making the privatization and deregulation of the power sector work. In the last 13 years it has […]
December 20, 2014

DOE’s “First Come First Served” Approach to RE FIT Allocation Outdated

David Celestra Tan 20 December 2014 When the subsidized rate for Renewable Energies were announced by the ERC, many green energy companies, local and foreign wanted to take advantage of such attractive rates. But the Philippines, evidently aware of the […]
November 6, 2014

P3 Reduction in Meralco’s Rate An Achievable Dream!

87% or P2.60 will not even come from Meralco’s pockets but from various pass-on charges on which Meralco had been claiming for many years they don’t make money and only act as collectors. Generation charge, transmission charge, systems loss, VAT, […]
October 27, 2014

DOE’S PROPOSED DASAP IS SEC. PETILLA’S POTENTIAL LEGACY

David Celestra Tan Updated 27 October 2014 One of the hallmarks of MSK’s recommendation to reduce the cost of electricity in the Meralco area by P3 per kwh is opening the power supply contracts of these private distribution utilities to […]