February 22, 2016

Meralco’s Increasing Rates Due to Outdated “Down and Still Pay” Allowances

David Celestra Tan, MSK 21 February 2016 Meralco recently announced its rate will increase P0.42 per kwh which many consumers and apparently including the ERC and the DOE find inconsistent with the 55% drop in world fuel prices. Of the […]
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 […]
November 29, 2015

Mandatory CSP – The devil is in the Implementation

27 November 2015 David Celestra Tan, MSK The passing of the Mandatory Competitive Selection Process (CSP) is a major and bold policy shift of the DOE and an enlightened regulatory stand by the ERC that should usher in a new […]