March 7, 2017

Dreaming Realistic Options to Inter-Island Power Grid Links – Archipelagic Power Strategy for an Archipelagic Country

David Celestra Tan, MSK 5 March 2017 The Philippines has 7,017 islands with 20 major ones. Luzon, Most of Visayas, and soon Mindanao are connected to the main grid. Big islands like Palawan, Mindoro, Masbate, Marinduque, Romblon, Catanduanes, Bantayan Island, […]
January 13, 2017

Simple But Deeper Issues in Power are Part of High Power Cost Problem

David Celestra Tan, MSK 12 January 2017 Energy Writer Myrna Velasco’s two part series on power policy and high power cost that appeared in the Manila Bulletin touched on the usual issues bedeviling the power sector and the country’s search […]
July 7, 2016

Archipelagic Nation Needs Archipelagic Generation – Part 2

David Celestra Tan July 7, 2016 The debate on distributed generation versus centralized generation dates back to the time of Thomas Alba Edison, the inventor of electricity, when he built the Pearl Street Station in New York in 1882. Napocor’s […]
February 24, 2015

Archipelagic Nation Needs Archipelagic Generation

David Celestra Tan 25 January 2015 Should a country generate its power from larger power plants far away from the load center or should it build smaller power plants closer to where they are needed? This article is a continuation […]