For the third time in less then ten months, very large, lattice-steel, double-circuit 138 kV transmission towers – the highest capacity circuits used by Transco in Mindanao – are bombed. All in the same general vicinity. Here are two reports (seem to have the same information source) on the latest, New Year’s 2008, bombing [...]
China’s State Grid won the Transco auction. Surprise. Surprise. What was interesting, I thought, is that Metro Pacific decided not to participate. I’m wondering if they smell a law suit; but I don’t know jack about this.
What I do know is that the numbers we looked at earlier are not reflective of what the bidder’s [...]
Alfie concretely addresses one of the more fundamental power market issues we’re going to be wrestling with on Luzon for the foreseeable future. [There are others; but this is a blog post, not a book.]
For each hour, WESM stacks up all the bids from generators – low to high – and starts selecting the cheapest [...]