Monthly Archives: August 2008

Electric Cooperative Benchmarking

A new Philippine energy blog I’ve started following is Head, Wind, Canoe. The writer focuses on distribution issues – so it’s a welcome addition to my reading.
Today he compiles some publicly available EC data (from 2006) into a chart which shows a correlation between the total sales volume of an EC and it’s “distribution costs” [...]

Tiwi-Makban and Geothermal Asset Issues

Ah … just go read Dr. Ruaya. Nice observations, all the way down the line.

Piecing Together the NPC Puzzle

This is NOT rocket science, as they say. But let me try to link a number of disparate pieces together regarding the NPC/PSALM privatization process.
First, consider the following diagram that shows how NPC tariffs are linked to the privatized asset revenue stream. The numbers are illustrative only, in order to communicate a concept.

I won’t walk [...]