December 11, 2018

WE APPEAL TO THE ERC TO LIFT THE SUSPENSION OF ITS NEW GUIDELINES CORRECTING THE METHOD OF DETERMINING CONCENTRATION OF OWNERSHIP, OPERATION, AND CONTROL OF INSTALLED GENERATION CAPACITY.

David Celestra Tan, MSK 11 December 2018 In the waning days of the former ERC Chair Zenaida Ducut in 2015, the ERC surprisingly made an effort to correct one of the great illegalities in the implementation of the EPIRA Law […]
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Outdated Anti-Consumer Terms in BOT-Type PSA Contracts Need to be Prohibited (Part 1)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 12, 2018

PH nixes carbon tax on coal, thermal plants

By Myrna M. Velasco – November 11, 2018, 10:00 PM from Manila Bulletin HANOI, Vietnam – The Philippines is not adopting the policy of enforcing a carbon tax on its thermal power facilities and similarly situated technologies because this will […]
November 10, 2018

Meralco subsidiary upbeat on Atimonan power supply deal

By Alena Mae S. Flores – November 09, 2018 at 08:05 pm from manilastandard.net Meralco PowerGen Corp., a unit of Manila Electric Co., is still confident the supply agreement of the 1,200 megawatt Atimonan One Energy coal power plant will […]