February 17, 2016

Update on CSP Front, Part 2 – Games People Play in “Swiss Challenge” Biddings

David Celestra Tan, MSK 14 February 2016 It is Valentines Day and it is great to read the consumer-heartwarming news about the ERC disagreeing to the requests of many electric cooperatives for exemption from the mandatory bidding or CSP of […]
January 31, 2016

Meralco’s P0.18 Reduction In 2015 Is A Camouflaged Refund of Overcharge in 2011

David Celestra Tan, MSK The rate reduction of P0.18 per kwh that Meralco announced in July 2015 turned out to be actually a refund of overcharges for the years 2007 to 2011 and not a reduction in rate. At the […]
January 9, 2016

Market Domination and Counting Installed Generating Capacities

David Celestra Tan, MSK 8 January 2016 A wise USA regulator said “we know we want to deregulate, we just forgot why we are doing it!”. This characterizes the way the Philippines had been implementing its power deregulation law of […]
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 […]