December 6, 2018

OUTDATED ANTI-CONSUMER TERMS IN BOT-Type PSA Contracts Needs to be Prohibited (Part 2)

David Celestra Tan, MSK 4 December 2018 Part 2/2 History of Guarantee Payments during Downtimes There was a time in the power crisis of 1990s when these guaranteed capacity payments are necessary to encourage power plant investors, most of them […]
December 3, 2018

Outdated Anti-Consumer Terms in BOT-Type PSA Contracts Need to be Prohibited (Part 1)

David Celestra Tan, MSK 30 November 2018 Part 1/2 Part of the complex formula for the generation rates that are charged to us consumers by Meralco is something called Capital Recovery Fee or CRF. That is to allow these power […]
November 2, 2018

The Unreachable Promised Land of Lower Power Costs….And Options for the BNPP.

David Celestra Tan, MSK 1 November 2018 Lower Power Costs (LPC) is a consumer nirvana that is being promised to the public for the last 21 years since they started debating the deregulation and privatization of the power sector. Everytime […]
October 17, 2018

The Solar Para Sa Bayan Mini-Grid Franchise (H.B. 8179) is a Trojan Horse (Part 3)

For People and Country, We Need an “Inclusive” Not “Non-Exclusive” Mini-Grids Instead   David Celestra Tan, MSK 14 October 2018   The ongoing full-scale lobby by SPSBC for a supposed “non-exclusive” franchise including its’ new strategy to “invite” hundreds of […]