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Boo Chanco
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Our coal dilemma
by Boo Chanco - September 16, 2026 - 12:00am
We have a serious power supply problem that makes potential investors flee.
DOE failure
by Boo Chanco - September 14, 2026 - 12:00am
Pity Energy Secretary Sharon Garin. She is from Iloilo and like the rest of Visayas, Iloilo has been suffering from power failures reminiscent of the great blackouts of the Cory era. And Secretary Garin seems unable...
What’s the real score?
by Boo Chanco - September 11, 2026 - 12:00am
Our government is telling us that the economy is not that bad, pointing out that international credit rating agencies have maintained our investment grade rating.
Expensive electricity
by Boo Chanco - September 9, 2026 - 12:00am
Our power system, the high cost of electricity and the unreliability of supply, are often cited as a primary deal breaker with potential foreign investors in our manufacturing sector. Even local investors have cited...
An outlier taipan
by Boo Chanco - September 7, 2026 - 12:00am
Over the past weeks, I have been writing about how our economic elites have preferred to invest in protected and rent-seeking industries rather than in basic industries that will make our economy internationally...
Why we need FDI
by Boo Chanco - September 4, 2026 - 12:00am
BSP Governor Eli Remolona Jr., in a Senate hearing last week, cited the need for the country to have more exports to bring in more dollars we need to buy the increasing amount of goods that we now import. Remittances...
‘Mayabang kasi tayo!’
by Boo Chanco - September 2, 2026 - 12:00am
“Medyo mahirap sabihin ito, Senator, pero mayabang tayo eh… may consumption culture.”
Focus on ancillary!
by Boo Chanco - August 31, 2026 - 12:00am
After all the brouhaha over systems losses being blamed for rising electricity bills, the best that our government can do is to offer to remove the 12 percent VAT on systems losses. That’s peanuts. Our government...
Sponge City
by Boo Chanco - August 28, 2026 - 12:00am
The floods we endured over the last two weeks elicited a hopeful press release from BBM.
Garbage fee
by Boo Chanco - August 26, 2026 - 12:00am
The City of Manila has implemented a steep increase of up to 1,200 percent in commercial garbage collection fees via City Ordinance 9151.
Lies, damn lies and statistics
by Boo Chanco - August 24, 2026 - 12:00am
“There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics.”
Why aren’t we angry yet?
by Boo Chanco - August 21, 2026 - 12:00am
he Southwest Monsoon dumped 201.7 mm of rainfall in just five hours over Metro Manila on Aug. 17. With 138 mm falling in a two-hour window, widespread flooding hit major roads across Metro Manila.
An island of consumption
by Boo Chanco - August 19, 2026 - 12:00am
Economic Planning Secretary Arsenio Balisacan observed that the economy is growing too slow.
Siyam-siyam
by Boo Chanco - August 17, 2026 - 12:00am
We have had about two weeks of almost non-stop rain even in the absence of a typhoon. In Tagalog, we call it siyam siyam.
Ancillary services
by Boo Chanco - August 14, 2026 - 12:00am
In a press briefing, Meralco’s Larry Fernandez, head of Utility Economics, explained that consumers will not feel the full impact of Meralco’s 59-centavo-per-kWh reduction because transmission charge...
Jobs, jobs, jobs
by Boo Chanco - August 12, 2026 - 12:00am
The statistics measuring employment and unemployment are often presented to seem better than they really are.
We’re in deep doo doo
by Boo Chanco - August 10, 2026 - 12:00am
Last Friday, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported some grim statistics showing that our GDP grew by only 2.3 percent year-on-year for Q2 2026, marking the weakest quarterly performance in 17 years...
Is ERC up to the job?
by Boo Chanco - August 7, 2026 - 12:00am
The incompetence of our government in regulating the power industry is a significant cause of our woes. While the current leadership of the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) has been trying hard to clean up...
Sweat and tears
by Boo Chanco - August 5, 2026 - 12:00am
Due to time zone differences, many of us have been losing sleep trying to catch the tennis matches of Alex Eala.
System loss charge
by Boo Chanco - August 3, 2026 - 12:00am
This big controversy over the system loss that power distribution utility companies are allowed to pass on to their customers reminds me of the many discussions we had on the issue during the old days at the Ministry...
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