Monthly Archives: May 2006

Mindanao Power Situation

Mike Banos has a really good entry today on Mindanao.
Among the several interesting things is this statement:

Energy consultant Dean De la Paz [that name sounds awfully familiar to me but I can't place him] said "the IPPs do not trust the figures of the DoE forecasts and there is a need to go beyond these [...]

Masinloc Mania

Neal Cruz of the Philippine Daily Inquirer and Fel Maragay at the Manila Standard are both spilling similar information related to the YNN Masinloc deal this morning.
At least for the latter part of both columns, they are clearly taking their cues from the very same piece of paper - phrase by phrase and sometimes sentence [...]

Forum on “The Future of Power Industry Reforms”

A number of people I talked to last week in the energy sector didn’t know anything about a forum funded by USAID and held in conjunction with the AIM Policy Center on Friday at the Makati Shang.  Did you?  I didn’t… well until I stumbled onto it Wednesday.
Dr. David Victor of Stanford University provided a [...]