By David A. Tauli, President, Mindanao Coalition of Power Consumers In the year 2104, sixteen electric cooperatives in Mindanao entered into long term power supply contracts with the 405-MW coal power plant of FDC Misamis Power Corporation located in Villanueva, Misamis Oriental, at a price of 5.40 pesos per kilowatt-hour. These power supply contracts were anomalous, having been entered into by the ECs by violating the requirement of the EPIRA for distribution utility companies to carry out least-cost acquisition of […]

David Celestra Tan, MSK 20 August 2017 Meralco, after their apparently successful circumvention of the CSP policy for their 3,551mw of 20 year coal power contracts, is now highly publicizing their embracing competitive selection process (CSP) for renewable energy supply, mainly solar. And it is quite revealing. Meralco heralded their signing of contracts 50mw of solar power from Solar Philippines at P5.39 per kwh, another 50mw at 4.69 per kwh from PowerSource, and now 85mw at only P3.50 per kwh […]

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 […]