January 5, 2015

Petition for Rule Changes in ERC’s Rate-making Methodologies and the Manner of Contracting Bilateral Generation Contracts, Submitting the Same to Open, Competitive Bidding to Protect Consumers

For the information of Meralco consumers and MSK members, we are posting the copy of the first petition we filed related to MSK’s campaign to reduce power costs by P3 per kwh. The following are the co-signatories of the petition. […]
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 17, 2014

Consumer Groups Petition ERC for Open Bidding of Power Supply Contracts

Consumer Groups led by the power cost reduction advocacy group, Matuwid na Singil sa Kuryente Consumer Alliance Inc. (MSK) have formally filed with the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) a petition for rule changes in the contracting of power supply bilateral […]
December 17, 2014

Ball on Sec. Petilla’s Court in Reducing Electricity Rates

David Celestra Tan 16 December 2014 It was a wonderful show of consumer sensitivity on the part of current Energy Secretary Carlos Jericho Petilla to have called for a multi-sectoral task force to look for ways to reduce electricity prices. […]