Tag Archives: Cooperatives

Routing Around Regulators

I dislike bashing the ERC staff - it’s almost never called for. But I don’t mind discussing failures of the the ERC as an institution and even then, quite frankly, it’s usually more appropriate to point fingers outside that institution as major culprits.
The ERC has been unable, over the years, to hold NPC/Transco to [...]

Electric Cooperatives and Communication

I sat in on Nothern Luzon Electric Cooperative Association’s (NELECA) monthly meeting that was held, unusually, in Manila yesterday.
Man, the coops have a lot going on. Lots of open issues. I can tell that yesterday’s meeting was a valuable opportunity for many of the coops to catch up on issues and ask questions of Manila-based [...]

Philippine Cooperative Movement

The CDA has a nice chronology of developments in the Philippine cooperative movement.
A Century of the Philippine Cooperative Movement is a paper written by Prof. Jorge Sibal of UP SOLAIR (which has nothing to do with energy, believe it or not) - probably in 1999 or 2000.