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September 28, 2017

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Meralco’s Generation Cartel is the Issue and Itgoes Beyond Meralco and into Power…..the political kind. (Part 2)

David Celestra Tan, MSK 28 September 2017 Worthwhile Competitors Ironically there are many equally capable independent bidders who could have provided healthy competition, technologies, and alternatives that would have been beneficial to consumers. Shutout by the MVP Group were the […]

November 14, 2016

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Meralco’s Self-Dealing is Rent-Seeking on its Distribution Franchise. It is Abuse of Market Power and Harmful to Consumers.

David Celestra Tan, MSK 13 November 2016 Meralco has a franchise and monopoly for the distribution of electricity in the mega area of Metro-Manila and adjoining provinces. Its distribution franchise though did not come with the right to also monopolize […]

August 22, 2016

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IPP’s Surrender to Meralco’s Market Capture and the Rise of the Power Oligarchy

David Celestra Tan, MSK 20 August 2016 “We know we wanted to deregulate, we just forgot why we are doing it!” a USA regulator lamented. That in a nutshell is the state of the deregulated and privatized power sector in […]

October 26, 2015

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The DOE’s CSP Rules and You ……And Why Meralco Is Fighting it Tooth and Nail

MSK October 24 2015 The Department of Energy, the energy policy making body of the country, passed a Circular on June 30, 2015 requiring distribution utilities like Meralco to open to competitive selection process (CSP) their purchases of power supplies […]