About two years I did some work for the IFC’s Manila mission, working in conjunction with my colleague Grace Yeneza. The IFC asked us to conceptualize several alternative interventions for their consideration to help strengthen the electric cooperative sector here in the Philippines. One or more of these were to be undertaken by the IFC [...]
Not all of my discussions on Philippine Power Markets is found here on this blog.
The Asian Energy Dance Hall Society is a community – not a place. And the on-line discussions are happening in multiple places.
Some of you already interact with me on Twitter. But not all my conversations are there either. In fact, most [...]
I’m beginning to wonder if we’ll ever get another hydroelectric IPP project approved by the ERC. Here’s the problem.
The ERC appears to be dictating pricing structure (as opposed to pricing levels). And the pricing structure ERC has mandated for a number of new IPP projects (both hydro and coal) is that investment-cost recovery must be [...]