Despite a less-than-ideal Christmas and New Year celebrations this year, the Department of Energy (DOE) is trying to compensate that with assurance that the holiday break will not be messed up with power service interruptions. Energy Secretary Alfonso G. Cusi (Photo credit: https://www.doe.gov.ph)...
Amid controversies stirred up by the transaction, the Department of Energy (DOE) indicated that it had not seen ‘violation’ in the sale and purchase agreement (SPA) sealed by American firm Chevron Corporation and Udenna Corporation in the 45-percent stake of Malampaya that was unloaded by the...
The Department of Energy (DOE) has suspended the issuance of “certificates of energy projects of national significance” (CEPNS) to various projects being proposed by industry players....
The Department of Energy (DOE) is stepping up on the conduct of a feasibility study that will line up hydrogen as “fuel of the future” for the Philippines. Energy Secretary Alfonso G. Cusi “I have recently formed a team to study its potential for the local industry given that hydrogen is seen...
Post pandemic energy planning Post Covid-19 pandemic and beyond the stretch of the Duterte administration, the power development planning of the Department of Energy (DOE) had cast an average 7.5-percent gross domestic product (GDP) growth as base scenario in the country’s energy needs for the...
To ensure that even people who are slow to understand and unwilling to listen will clearly hear it, Energy Secretary Alfonso G. Cusi twice stipulated that the Philippines “cannot really get rid of coal” even on its future energy mix onward to 2040. In an updated Philippine Energy Plan (PEP)...
As the Duterte administration inches closer to its tail end stretch, the Department of Energy (DOE) will knock anew on investors’ doors for prospective fresh capital flow to various projects being offered across segments in the energy sector. Coinciding with the celebration of the National Energy...
The Philippines is cementing its two-decade ‘low carbon’ pathway with 34,000 megawatts of renewable energy (RE) installations that shall be integrated into the power mix. At the virtual Southeast Asian Nations Clean Energy Week, Energy Secretary Alfonso G. Cusi declared that the country’s...
Despite the Department of Energy’s (DOE) moratorium on new coal projects, it was specified that the coal ventures of state-run Philippine National Oil Company-Exploration Corporation will not be covered by that investment prohibition. Energy Secretary Alfonso G. Cusi qualified the PNOC-EC...
With the West Philippine Sea already legally opened by the government for oil and gas exploration, Energy Secretary Alfonso G. Cusi has intensified his call on neighbor-countries in the Southeast Asian region to join in the ‘upstream exploration ventures’ in Philippine waters. In his address at...
The Department of Energy (DOE) has cornered 1,025 applications for renewable energy (RE) projects as of end-September this year, and this will yield up to 30,597 megawatts (MW) of additional power capacity for the Philippines once advanced to commercial operations. Effectively, this will be more...
Greenfield power projects that will feed on imported liquefied natural gas (LNG) have been emerging as ‘hot investment contest’ in the restructured electricity sector, and Aboitiz Power Corporation announced that it is inclined to join the forthcoming wave of capital spending for the...
