David Celestra Tan, MSK September 8, 2017 Most Filipino consumers know that every month their electricity bill takes a significant part of his budget. And he better pay up or his lights will be cutoff. One side of his brain is revolting but the other side is being brainwashed into believing that it is just life and all people are paying the same. They are also told that the reason Meralco’s rates are high is because our Asean neighbors are […]

by Engr. Joselito Villarey Meralco SL of 6+% reflect the average of generation which is negligible due to pass of similar with transmission, hence if you get the average of general transmission that are negligible combine with distance which is quite high will give an competitive ave of 6%+ only! Why not request the unbundle valued of gen, trans and dist. And if their loss is low, why the rate still high? This is because of many pass on rate […]

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 give them a grade of 65% as an institution, failing in many measures. Our electricity rates are the highest in Asean because of this failure. We interact with many of their Commissioners, directors, and employees and most of them are […]

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 Ayala Group (for now), a long time cooperative party in the Telecoms and water sectors, the Lopez group that had been focusing on natural gas generation. Left outside looking in also are the TeamEnergy group of Japan, GN Power, Giant […]