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Bienvenido Oplas Jr.
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Net growth via more coal power
by Bienvenido Oplas Jr. - March 27, 2025 - 12:00am
From December 2024 up to this month, many big global banks have left and abandoned the Net Zero Banking Alliance formed in 2021. They realized that they are not optimizing their resources entrusted to them by their...
From energy regulation to deregulation (Part 3)
by Bienvenido Oplas Jr. - March 20, 2025 - 12:00am
This is a continuation of the previous articles this year in this column , “From energy regulation to deregulation” Part 1 (Jan. 25) and Part 2 (Feb. 6). In Part 1, the three regulations I discussed were...
Government revenues are fine but spending cut is needed
by Bienvenido Oplas Jr. - March 13, 2025 - 12:00am
The Bureau of the Treasury  released the cash operations report for full year 2024 the other week. So annual data is now complete and comparable, here are some of the important results.
Low inflation, low borrowings via PhilHealth idle fund transfer
by Bienvenido Oplas Jr. - March 6, 2025 - 12:00am
Yesterday, the Philippine Statistics Authority released the inflation data for February 2025 at only 2.1 percent, nice.
Meralco finance and GDP congruence, energy regulation incongruence
by Bienvenido Oplas Jr. - February 27, 2025 - 12:00am
Last Monday, Feb. 24 , I attended the 2024 Meralco Financials Operating Results: Media Briefing held at Grand Hyatt in BGC, Taguig City.
A growth target of 7% is viable
by Bienvenido Oplas Jr. - February 20, 2025 - 12:00am
Last week this column argued “Why Philippine growth of six to 6.5 percent in 2025 is possible.”
Why Philippine growth of 6 to 6.5% in 2025 is possible
by Bienvenido Oplas Jr. - February 13, 2025 - 12:00am
The three quick reasons for this argument are: election cycle growth, low base growth and declining unemployment and inflation.
From energy regulation to deregulation, Part 2
by Bienvenido Oplas Jr. - February 6, 2025 - 12:00am
In 2000 or one year before the Electric Power Industry Reform Act of 2001 (EPIRA, RA 9136), the primary energy consumption (PEC, for transportation, cooking, electricity, etc.) of these four ASEAN countries in exajoules...
From energy regulation to deregulation, Part 1
by Bienvenido Oplas Jr. - January 30, 2025 - 12:00am
The Electric Power Industry Reform Act (EPIRA, RA 9136) was signed on June 8, 2001, and will turn 24 in five months. I will compare electricity production from 2001 onward in the three largest ASEAN countries by...
On school reunions and celebration of friendship
by Bienvenido Oplas Jr. - January 23, 2025 - 12:00am
Last weekend, Jan. 18-19, I attended our high school annual reunion at the former Cadiz City High School in Negros Occidental, Batch 1980. It was our 45th anniversary. When we graduated in 1980, there were 12 sections...
Lower unemployment, inflation and electricity prices
by Bienvenido Oplas Jr. - January 16, 2025 - 12:00am
Last week, the Philippine Statistics Authority released the labor data for November 2024, with the unemployment rate at 3.2 percent – an all-time low except in June 2024 and December 2023 with 3.1 percent....
Toward more gas power development in the Phl
by Bienvenido Oplas Jr. - January 9, 2025 - 12:00am
The fastest-growing major economies in the world – those in the top 50 largest GDP size – are mostly Asians. For instance, the average GDP growth from 2015-2023 were as follows: Vietnam, six percent;...
Top 10 investments and infrastructure news of 2024
by Bienvenido Oplas Jr. - January 2, 2025 - 12:00am
Here is my list of five global investment and five Philippines infrastructure stories of 2024. For foreign direct investment , I use inward stock or inflows minus outflows per year accumulated through the years,...
Top 10 energy news of 2024
by Bienvenido Oplas Jr. - December 27, 2024 - 12:00am
Here is my list of the most significant power and energy stories for 2024.
Argentina’s economic recovery via free market policies and lessons for Philippines
by Bienvenido Oplas Jr. - December 19, 2024 - 12:00am
It’s my first time to set foot in South America and I am here in a country withthe first openly free marketer president in the continent, Argentina President Javier Milei
Gas power in Asia and Pacific Light
by Bienvenido Oplas Jr. - December 12, 2024 - 12:00am
In Part 1 of this topic last Nov. 28, I discussed the countries with the highest natural gas power generation/total power generation ratio. The top three are Singapore, Iran and Egypt.
New fiscal targets and the anti-agricultural economic sabotage law
by Bienvenido Oplas Jr. - December 5, 2024 - 12:00am
Three topics here and we go straight to the numbers and facts.
Gas power in Asia and Pacific Light (Part 1 of 2)
by Bienvenido Oplas Jr. - November 28, 2024 - 12:00am
It’s the city of bright lights, fast and efficient trains underground, the regional headquarter of many big multinationals from the West and the host of one of Formula 1’s famous races held at night because...
CREATE MORE and Trump tax, spending cut plan
by Bienvenido Oplas Jr. - November 21, 2024 - 12:00am
The Corporate Recovery and Tax Incentives for Enterprises to Maximize Opportunities for Reinvigorating the Economy (CREATE MORE), signed into law last Nov. 11, is another good law pushed by the Department of Finance...
The Freeman energy forum; avoiding carbon tax
by Bienvenido Oplas Jr. - November 14, 2024 - 12:00am
As mentioned in this column last week, I attended The Freeman energy forum on the theme, “Powering Cebu,” at Waterfront Hotel in Cebu IT Park.
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