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 19, 2017

Govt’s Right to Tax Power Comes with Obligation to Protect Electric Consumers From Exploitation

David Celestra Tan, MSK 17 December 2017 The new government tax on coal and diesel will be painful additions to the monthly electric bills of the already overcharged and overburdened Filipino electric consumers. It will add P0.12 per kwh to […]
September 28, 2017

Meralco’s Generation Cartel is the Issue and Itgoes Beyond Meralco and into Power…..the political kind. (Part 2)

David Celestra Tan, MSK 28 September 2017 Worthwhile Competitors Ironically there are many equally capable independent bidders who could have provided  healthy competition, technologies, and alternatives that would have been beneficial to consumers.   Shutout by the MVP Group were the […]
September 16, 2017

ERC Must be Cured Not Abolished Nor Crippled

David Celestra Tan, MSK 15 September 2017 There is no question that the ERC has not been living up to its mandate to protect the consumers, to assure long term supply at fair and reasonable rates. In our book we […]