January 4, 2016

Remaking the ERC – Purpose before Size

David Celestra Tan, MSK 2 January 2016 New ERC Chair Jose Vicente Salazar is engineering a shakeup of the ERC. We are sure there is a method to the ensuing madness caused by the reorganization and by officers leaving because […]
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 […]
December 22, 2015

Consumer Group MSK Seeks ERC Repeal of PBR

Consumer Group Matuwid na Singil sa Kuryente Consumer Alliance Inc. (MSK) filed a rules change petition at the Energy Regulatory Commission seeking the repeal of the Performance Based Rate Making methodology that is used to determine electricity rates to the […]
November 29, 2015

Mandatory CSP – The devil is in the Implementation

27 November 2015 David Celestra Tan, MSK The passing of the Mandatory Competitive Selection Process (CSP) is a major and bold policy shift of the DOE and an enlightened regulatory stand by the ERC that should usher in a new […]