January 15, 2015

It Will Take a Village to Reduce Meralco’s Rates

By David Celestra Tan MSK has studied and identified the various charges that have been adding up to high electricity rates for Filipinos in the Meralco franchise area that serves 72% of the electricity needs of Luzon island. These are […]
January 8, 2015

How Much Should Meralco be Allowed to Profit as a Public Service Utility?

by David Celestra Tan 2 January 2015 Part I Let us start the New Year by going back to the basics of Meralco’s rates, which is how much should they, as a franchised public service utility, be allowed to profit? […]
December 31, 2014

Filing Consumer Petitions at ERC a Disturbing Experience

By Aya Jallorina Executive Director Matuwid na Singil sa Kuryente Consumer Alliance Inc.(MSK) aya.msk14org@gmail.com matuwid.org Electricity consumers have long been questioning whether the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) is promoting the interest of consumers and not only that of big utilities […]
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 […]