November 28, 2016

Whats Anomalous About Meralco’s Charging the Public with Negotiated Rates Without CSP?And the DOE Doling Out FIT Subsidies?

David Celestra Tan, MSK 27 November 2016 Under our Anti-graft laws the Office of the Ombudsman had indicted many government officials for misappropriating government funds. From procurement, improper expenses, and misuse of pork barrel.Former President Arroyo had been accused of […]
November 5, 2016

Energy lukewarm to a new FIT round

by Alena Mae S. Flores – November 03, 2016 at 11:45 pm from Manila Standard Today The Energy Department is lukewarm to granting a third round of feed-in tariff rates to renewable energy producers which will further increase the cost of electricity in […]
October 14, 2016

FIT-All of P0.24/kWh to hit consumers harder

by Myrna Velasco – October 13, 2016 from Manila Bulletin The price of so-called clean energy is going to hit harder on Filipino consumers with the targeted application of up to P0.24 per kilowatt-hour (kWh)feed-in-tariff allowance (FIT-All) by fund administrator National Transmission […]
July 9, 2016

Cutting Electricity Rates The Right Way

David Celestra Tan, MSK 9 July 2016 When the subject of reducing power rates come up, Meralco gratuitously suggests “reduce the VAT taxes”. When there was pressure to reduce generation rates, they suggested that the government should eliminate the taxes […]