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What are the Standard AC Electric Power Transmission and Distribution Voltages in the Philippines?
The President is Mandated by Law to Reduce Royalties and Taxes on Power
I don’t know why after these throwing of accusations and blames on why the cost of electricity in the Philippines is high – there are the issues of system loss, cross ownership, WESM, transmission charges, and NPC stranded cost – the President of the Philippines, herself, is not doing her part that is, actually, mandated […]
Posted in Philippine Electric Power Industry, Reforms/EPIRA
What the Philippine Law Says about the System loss
Too much has been said and many people, mostly politicians, had already expressed their opinions about the distribution system loss. But what really is “system loss”? Can distribution utilities (DU’s) remove it or not to pass it to consumers?
Posted in MERALCO, Philippine Electric Power Industry
US Power Industry is in Need of Power (Electrical) Systems Engineers
In the March/April 2007 issue of IEEE Power and Energy Magazine, one of the authors wrote an article citing a possible crisis in the US power industry, that is, a possible shortage of technical talents of Power Engineers. The author was referring to a report submitted by the Department of Energy to the US Congress […]
Posted in Jobs, Philippine Electric Power Industry
The History of the Sale of Masinloc Power Plant
Back when I was still working for the Senate Committee on Energy, it was around the early half of 2005. The issue on the sale of Masinloc Power Plant in Zambales exploded when the winning bidder, YNN Pacific Consortium, was found out to be under-capitalize, no experience in power industry, incorporated only around 4 months […]
Posted in Philippine Electric Power Industry, Reforms/EPIRA
Why MERALCO is Giving-up its Large Consumers?
Many thought that it is a loss for MERALCO if it gave-up its large consumers with a power consumption of 1 MW or more (and allow them to have a freedom to choose its own power supplier) since a big chunk of its consumers are industrial and commercial users which utilize power of more that […]
Posted in MERALCO, Philippine Electric Power Industry