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Re: A Bad Idea from Nasecore

nicknich3 — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 04:22:48 -0000

I absolutely agree.

Re: A Bad Idea from Nasecore

guest — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 23:13:53 -0000

I think consumer's have the right to know how their goods are priced.
It's a very complicated thing for an ordinary citizen to understand but the point is that no over commercialism is practiced.

Re: DOE List of Philippines Power Plants

fritzie pascua — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 22:32:20 -0000

thank you very much mr. nick, youre such a great big help.
God Bless!

Cheers!
fritzie

Re: DOE List of Philippines Power Plants

nicknich3 — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 02:49:38 -0000

Unfortunately I don't have such a list. Try the ERC site http://www.erc.gov.ph They should have a list of power plants/companies that have been issued a COC - Certificate of Compliance.

Re: DOE List of Philippines Power Plants

fritzie pascua — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 02:44:18 -0000

hello Mr. nick,
may i ask the name of the small power plants here in the Philippines and their contact numbers?

Thank you very much
fritzie

Re: DOE List of Philippines Power Plants

nicknich3 — Mon, 18 May 2009 05:23:24 -0000

Joe: What's the company? What's your 'connection'? What's your name?

Re: DOE List of Philippines Power Plants

joe — Sat, 16 May 2009 08:55:09 -0000

hi nick

i'am connected in a company servicing motors & generators...
the company i work with is the biggest & most advance in technology here in Philippines..
can you give me some of your contacts?..
thanks...

Re: I’m Off to Kabul This Week

nicknich3 — Sat, 09 May 2009 21:19:35 -0000

BongV: I'm not extremely close to the solar activities here. Here's a link to an older Businessweek article on solar manufacturing in Philippines. http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/o...

Since the Philippines has a significant (or had, before the economic crisis) electronic fabrication industry, there are support facilities for manufacturing solar cells, I would think.

I presume SunPower is still manufacturing here - they made a significant investment and had an initial capacity of about 25 MW per year, I believe.

Aid agencies continue to fund significant amounts of rural roof top systems in poor, off-grid areas. There is at least one (probably more) private operators selling rooftop systems to upscale homes.

Re: I’m Off to Kabul This Week

BongV — Sat, 09 May 2009 21:06:02 -0000

Hi Nick:

Read your post on Filipinovoices.com

When are you returning to the Philippines?

I wanted to ask you about the prospects for solar energy and home energy in the Philippines - sourcing of solar cells, possibility of manufacturing solar cells in the philippines, etc.

Re: DOE List of Philippines Power Plants

RAMSES PURBA — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:15:10 -0000

Hi Mr Nick

Can you give me the list of email addres of the power plant company in Philipinesl, especially which use coal and Diesel for source of energy, because I want to send the for them to offer coal from Indonesia

Re: An ERC “No Brainer”?

nicknich3 — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 21:50:08 -0000

I have a hunch that the Commissioners, as a whole, perceive that it is not in their personal best interest for quick and full public promulgation of ALL of their Decisions, Orders, and Announcements. I think that is misguided, because the web allows us to talk about that in a way we could not do before. The sooner they move to timely disclosure, the better off for them (as well as us).

Certainly using Twitter won't make the rate setting process transparent. But it will open the door to, or put pressure on, increased transparency. At least we could get timely notifications of publicly released Announcements and Decisions. It won't prevent the Commissioner's from delaying posting certain Decisions to the web. And it won't make the Decisions themselves any more transparent than they choose to write up.

Re: An ERC “No Brainer”?

MrGam — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 21:35:34 -0000

Nick, on the other hand, ERC has the brains. If they used Twitter, that would make the rate setting process very transparent. Then they would not be able to make lightning speed decisions such as the one issued on March 23 on the reduction of the increase in the generation charge for the Visayas (reduce the increase? hmm). The hearings in Cebu ended in the afternoon of Friday and the decision was out on Monday. Could this have been done if the stenographic transcripts were posted as soon as they were fully transcribed? The posting of the decision would have been made earlier than the posting of the stenographic notes.

Re: My Presentation Slide Decks

nicknich3 — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 18:47:43 -0000

Ha ha! It was an April Fool's Joke by SlideShare. They inserted two zero's in the numbers. I wasn't "totally" taken in, but then again, I guess I was.

At least I erred on the side of more marketing, not less.

Re: The Asian Energy Dance Hall Society

nicknich3 — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 19:40:51 -0000

Re-reading one of my favorite posts from 2006 today makes me want to reconsider the name for this group. Maybe "The One Percenters."

Re: This Is a Blog. It’s Always Been a Blog.

MrGam — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:36:53 -0000

That depends on what you are trying to sell. Me, I'm sold to your idea of crowdsourcing the improvement of the Philippine power sector. However, I must admit that I know nothing abut crowdsourcing. I only have the elementary idea of what it can do. So, please lead the way, you got one customer that thinks he has time to spare while waiting at the "pre-departure" area - I am a senior citizen and I think time is running out on me. I have realized too late that I have wasted a lot of time being busy with things that have not produced much meaning to my life.

Re: This Is a Blog. It’s Always Been a Blog.

nicknich3 — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:47:12 -0000

Well in this case I feel it's totally my fault. I'm not the best marketer in the world. Heh heh.

Re: This Is a Blog. It’s Always Been a Blog.

MrGam — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 08:44:00 -0000

“If I have time. I’m very busy.” actually meant "I don't want to be exposed as an ignorant and pretentious incumbent to the most important job in this department. That can jeopardize my retirement."

Re: We Have Complex Work To Do

MrGam — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 20:49:25 -0000

Actually, the Commissioner's suggestion was for the petitioners to make an effort to make a presentation of their case to the intervenors which could help in the faster resolution of issues and perhaps reduce the time spent in the formal hearings. I was the one that called it a "non-adversarial approach" because I already had in mind your crowdsourcing proposal. The hearing did bring together people that could start forming the crowd. Picking up from Nancy's message, we need to have collaborators to form the crowd and not adversaries raring to defend their positions in cyberspace.

This was also my response to Commissioner Rauf Tan's tongue-in-cheek observation during a break in the hearings when he noticed me requesting to load a file into the laptop of a PSALM officer. Jokingly, he smiled and said "That is called sleeping with the enemy.", to which I replied, "No, this is non-adversarial engagement."

Re: We Have Complex Work To Do

nicknich3 — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 18:37:32 -0000

MrGam - Thanks for the comments and for the update of what happened at the Cebu Hearings. That's very helpful

I'm totally stumped by what Commissioner Reyes meant by "non-adversarial approach" but having the parties conference among themselves and then come back to subsequently continue the Hearing process is a common regulatory technique for reaching solutions.

The "peanut butter" approach to the rate design is precisely what the Napocor filing requested. In fact, their filing used that term, specifically. So it sounds as if the ERC staff is supporting the NPC approach. But I'm not sure why they would support that. And frankly it doesn't matter what the staff thinks. The Commission is perfectly capable of disagreeing with their own staff and in fact that happens surprisingly often in the U.S.

Well, I suppose this is already the start of crowdsourcing the ERC case. It may seem as if this is a conversation between two people, but I can promise you many others are reading it and already putting it to use.

There are a number of ways to better facilitate a wider exchange of ideas. We could try some. Let me think a bit. I'll propose something. Others can suggest here also. Maybe it's not too late to get something going on this case.

Re: We Have Complex Work To Do

MrGam — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 10:04:25 -0000

I agree with Nancy and subscribe to your crowd-sourcing idea although I have never participated in one. Two nights of cramming for the ERC hearing in Cebu on the ERC/PSALM petition brought me to your site. I wish I had found it earlier. I was able to refer your observation about the TOU implementation of the proposed increase and noticed that the ERC PA suggested an across-the-board implementation or what they called the "peanut butter" implementation.

Upon the suggestion of the ERC Commissioner, NPC/PSALM lawyers and their witnesses agreed with some intervenors to try a non-adversarial approach to this complex and complicated issue of rate setting for power. Nancy's post and what I gathered from this blog made it easy for me to agree to the suggestion and even offered to look for a venue where virtual meetings and exchange of ideas could take place. Would this be a start of you crowd-sourcing proposal? How do we proceed? I have uploaded some NPC files at http://rpweb.ph/Uploads/erc_files/ERC_2009004RC...

My profile may also be found at http://reklamo.ph/maritimewatchkeeper/ and why I am interested in the stuff that you have here may also be explained at http://among.reklamo.ph

Yes, we have some complex work to do....

Re: Oh My. Masinloc.

nicknich3 — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:08:44 -0000

Recruiting Business - Yes you can link and copy as much as you wish, according to the CC license posted in footer. All I ask is attribution. Thanks.

Re: Oh My. Masinloc.

Recruiting Business — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 13:23:43 -0000

Nice Topic. I just subscribe to your blog for future update.

Can i link this post to my blog and copy a snippet?

God bless and good luck!

Re: Philippines Power Plant Database

nicknich3 — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 22:40:19 -0000

Alfie - that would be huge, actually. Thanks. Everything I've got is
so out of date.

Re: Philippines Power Plant Database

Alfie — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 22:09:02 -0000

Thanks Nick. Actually, I`m just trying to make a good description, and some updates, as well as geographicaly mapping in google maps all the power plants that I personally visited.

Re: DOE List of Philippines Power Plants

nicknich3 — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 18:11:59 -0000

I'm an individual consultant addressing Philippine electric power issues.