July 17, 2017

FIT payments to RE developers still short by P8.15 billion by July

By Myrna M. Velasco –  July 15, 2017, 10:00 PM from Manila Bulletin Payments of feed-in-tariff (FIT) incentives to renewable energy (RE) developers remain short by P8.15 billion as of July this year, fund administrator of National Transmission Corporation (TransCo) has […]
December 5, 2016

Cusi nixes new feed-in tariff

by Alena Mae S. Flores – December 04, 2016 at 09:15 pm from Manila Standard Today Energy Secretary Alfonso Cusi is not inclined to a third round of feed-in tariff to ease the burden of consumers from high electricity rates. “As long as […]
March 3, 2016

Meralco’s Most Brazen Consumer Hoodwinking May Yet to Come on CSP

David Celestra Tan, MSK 1 March 2016 When Meralco supposedly agreed to respect the new policy for CSP contracting of power generation supply we were pleasantly surprised about the enlightened position of the long reviled utility. But now it seems […]
December 29, 2015

Where does an 800 lb Gorilla Sit? Anywhere it wants to!

By David Celestra Tan Co-convenor, Matuwid na Singil sa Kuryente Consumer Alliance Inc. 18 August 2014   Wikipedia says “800 pound gorilla” is an American English expression for a person or organization so powerful that it can act without regard to the […]