March 26, 2018

State of Power Industry or Do WE Have Enough Supply?

David Celestra Tan, MSK 25 March 2018 There is a high profile and obviously high budget media campaign going on to condition the people’s minds that the country needs more and newer power plants. This is amidst the stall in […]
March 15, 2018

WIN WIN SOLUTION FOR MERALCO’s 3,551MW MIDNIGHT CSP CIRCUMVENTION

David Celestra Tan, MSK 11 March 2018 Things are eerily quiet on Meralco’s Midnight power supply contracts and one wonders whether we will be surprised one day soon that the seven (7) midnight contracts totaling 3,551mw of coal projects have […]
February 17, 2018

The Lesson That Matters from the Ombudsman Suspension of the ERC Commissioners

David Celestra Tan, MSK 12 February 2018 When the Office of the Ombudsman handed down on December 21, 2017 its decision finding the Five (5) Commissioners of the ERC guilty of neglect of duty and abuse of discretion in favoring […]
February 9, 2018

CounterPoint: Our Rates are high because of Sweetheart Deals with Sister Generators and of Anomalous PBR rate methodology by ERC.

David Celestra Tan, MSK 9 February 2018 (This is MSK’s response to the viewpoint of Mr. Kris Balibukel  on our article Coal or LNG is not an either or question posted on December 5, 2017)   We agree with the point […]