Author Archives: Nick Nichols

Procurement Presentation

I was invited to make a presentation to the PhilRECA Board of Directors meeting on October 16.
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The seven ECs on Panay and Guimaras are in the midst of procurement for an aggregated 90 MW of base and intermediate load resources beginning in [...]

My Beliefs for This (Consulting) Business

What Am I About? Why Am I Here? What Is My Mission?
I have a strongly held belief that bulk power supply joint action on behalf of the Philippine electric cooperatives (ECs) will transform the EC sector. Executed diligently, it has the potential to lead the way forward out of a morass of power supply problems [...]

NPC Tariff Levels

Shakira, the phenomenally successful performing artist from Colombia, and of Lebanese decent, says it best: “Hips don’t lie”. Some of my colleagues on the other hand, who are practitioners of the dismal science, might say: “data is data is data.” Either way, sometimes you just gotta step back and look at the numbers. [...]