February 19, 2015

Meralco Customers Paying P13.68 B a Year More To Sister Company Generators

David Celestra Tan 16 February 2015 If there is any doubt at all on whether monopolization and self-negotiated power supply agreements are bad for electric consumers and the economic competitiveness of the country, we only have to look at Meralco’s […]
October 13, 2014

Current FIT and FIT-All Rules Seems UN-FIT for Consumers

By David Celestra Tan 12 October 2014 Last October 1 I attended a Solar Summit at the SMX Convention Center that was organized by the Philippine Solar Power Alliance. An ERC official explained the current Feed In Tariff program for […]
September 26, 2014

Philippine Star: Gov’t mulls bidding for Malampaya banked gas

By Iris C. Gonzales (The Philippine Star) | Updated September 26, 2014 – 12:00am MANILA, Philippines – The government is eyeing to bid out unused Malampaya natural gas, more commonly known as banked gas, within the year, a member of […]
September 24, 2014

Is Meralco telling whole story?

First Published in the Philippine Daily Inquirer, May 11, 2014 Also appeared in Philippine Power Insights blog, July 7, 2014 When Manila Electric Co. (Meralco) tried to charge its customers for the 74-percent and 100-percent generation rate increases in December […]