January 15, 2015

It Will Take a Village to Reduce Meralco’s Rates

By David Celestra Tan MSK has studied and identified the various charges that have been adding up to high electricity rates for Filipinos in the Meralco franchise area that serves 72% of the electricity needs of Luzon island. These are […]
January 3, 2015

Are Electric Consumers Double Charged for Ancillary Services by NGCP and its dispatch of MRU?

David Celestra Tan January 2, 2014 In September and October 2014 Meralco’s purchases from WESM reached astonishing levels of P43.05 and P35.60 per kwh, even higher than the P33 per kwh that wrought havoc on the generation rates in Meralco’s […]
December 27, 2014

Regulatory Decongestion Essential to an Effective ERC

David Celestra Tan 26 December 2014 To be fair to the ERC, the Epira dumped on it an inordinate amount of responsibilities to making the privatization and deregulation of the power sector work. In the last 13 years it has […]
December 13, 2014

Meralco’s Generation Rate Reduction Welcome but Temporary

David Celestra Tan 11 December 2014 We join the millions of Meralco customers in welcoming and rejoicing the recent announcement of reductions in the generation rate, and consequently the total electricity bill, in Metro-Manila and the National Capital Region. From […]