January 12, 2016

A Sensible Philippine RE and Climate Change Policy

David Celestra Tan 12 January 2016 The Philippines does not really have a handle on a sensible policy and strategy to address climate change. Even its Renewable Energy program that so far is really its only concrete attempt at a […]
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 […]
December 29, 2015

Where does an 800 lb Gorilla Sit? Anywhere it wants to!

By David Celestra Tan Co-convenor, Matuwid na Singil sa Kuryente Consumer Alliance Inc. 18 August 2014   Wikipedia says “800 pound gorilla” is an American English expression for a person or organization so powerful that it can act without regard to the […]