If I did my calculations correctly, the ERC's just-approved Meralco tariff increase, which becomes effective next week, will hit the smaller customers the hardest.
Here's the ERC Decision
I did an analysis of Residential customers with varying monthly usage characteristics. Here is a chart of the percent increase as a function of your monthly usage.
As you [...]
Doc Searls wrote a piece yesterday on “Building better markets. Not just better marketing.”
Building better markets here in the Philippines is what I’m after.
But I no longer pursue “policy advisory” engagements. Effecting change in the trenches with the market participants and being compensated by the market participants is where I prefer to be with my [...]
Here are a couple of benchmarks, in the Visayas, for capacity cost that are worth noting.
A few weeks ago, the ERC released a Decision in regards to the price of power from the 12.5 MW Nabas bunker-fired diesel plant in Aklan. In that Decision they established that the price of Nabas capacity should be set at P628/kW-month on [...]