Monthly Archives: February 2009

Unfortunate Napocor Rate Design Change

The very first thing I glommed onto in the Napocor rate filing had nothing what-so-ever to do with justifications for their revenue requirement increase. Instead, the very first thing I looked at was the structure of the time-of-use rate design. I had been pleased with the existing design, but the new one has some [...]

Napocor Rate Increase Filing

Yesterday I attended the Expository Hearing and Pre-Trial Conference related to the joint application of Napocor and PSALM for increases to Napocor’s basic rates, filed on January 16 of this year and already provisionally approved, in part, by the ERC.
The good news is that we have lots of intervenors. Bad news is that the [...]

The Not-for-Profit Misnomer

Well, I guess it’s not technically a misnomer if no one knows that it’s an inaccurate characterization but I discuss the issue of Philippine electric cooperatives and profits in a post over at FilipinoVoices.