Thanks to Viking Logarta, I got to spend a little time yesterday with Lassi Holopainen, President of the Wholesale Electricity Spot Market (WESM) and I liked what I heard from him regarding focus (or the often lack thereof) on the larger social issues of where we want to be taking the Philippine power sector. [...]
How many hundreds of thousands of dollars in consulting fees, how many years of work and effort in the industry to move toward time-of-use (TOU) billing for large electricity users (hint: this has been in the works since at least the early 1990s) and what do we end up with today?
Well, we have TOU but [...]
I attended an Energy Regulatory Commission symposium this morning in Manila on the status of retail competion. Here’s my take on things – which is probably wrong, so be forewarned.
If you’re a residential customer – particularly one in the provinces – put your hat back on and go home. I doubt [...]