December 23, 2017

Urgent Biddings Needed to Assure Future Power Supply. Lets Hope Old ERC Officials are Not Recycled

David Celestra Tan, MSK 22 December 2017 The suspension of the four (4) ERC Commissioners by the Office of the Ombudsman over the inexplicable postponement of the CSP policy will throw in limbo the 3,551mw that Meralco signed with sister […]
December 13, 2017

ExciseTax on Coal Not As Damaging to Consumers as Apathetic Implementation of True CSP Policy

David Celestra Tan, MSK 10 December 2017 Our comrades in the Pro Consumer Advocacy movement have asked why MSK is not among the protesters against the proposed tax on coal.  Well, the reason is in our view it would be […]
November 29, 2017

New ERC Chair Agnes VST Devanadera Will be Good if She Listens to Her Own Heart and Soul

David Celestra Tan, MSK 28 November 2017 It is a good sign that President Duterte took time to choose carefully the new Chairman of the Energy Regulatory Commission in whose hands the fate of 100 million electric consumers would depend. […]
October 24, 2017

Our National Dance on Market Concentration in Power….and the Resulting Monopolization, Oligopolization, and Cartelization.

David Celestra Tan, MSK 22 October 2017 The DOE and ERC have been dancing around the issue of Market Concentration in Power since the get-go of the crafting and passing of the Electric Power Industry Reform Act of 2001 that […]