Gasoline prices at petroleum pumps will increase by P0.65 per liter this week; while diesel and kerosene prices will marginally go up by P0.05 per liter, based on the pricing notices sent by the oil companies. But for industry player Cleanfuel, the upward adjustment it implemented this week was...
Pangilinan-led Metro Pacific Investments Corporation (MPIC) is eyeing a Metro Manila expansion of the 84-kilometer pipeline, which is part of the oil import facility of Philippine Coastal Storage and Pipeline Corporation (PCSPC) that the company acquired last year, in anticipation of growing...
With the completion of the south transmission line in Negros Occidental, Aboitiz Power Corporation said its Carlos Sun Power Inc. (SacaSun) has already started doubling its capacity feed to the Visayas power grid. In a briefing with reporters,...
The Department of Energy (DOE) is reviewing its planning for the country’s energy needs -- with the recalibration touching mainly on the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic as well as the flourishing trends and innovations in the sector. Energy Secretary Alfonso G. Cusi stated that “with...
The European Union, through the Project Renewable Energy for Livelihood and Youth (RELY), has injected funding for the electrification of two (2) remote schools in Cebu with the deployment of solar technology. The beneficiary-schools have been the Carnaza Elementary School and Carnaza National High...
Filipino households can enjoy budget cuts in their cooking fuel this April as the price of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) has been cut by P3.30 per kilogram (kg), inclusive of value added tax (VAT), or an aggregate P36.30 reduction for the standard 11-kilogram cylinder....
Lopez-led Energy Development Corporation (EDC) has handed over P4.16 million electrification fund to Negros Oriental I Electric Cooperative (NORECO I), a power utility servicing the host community of the power generation firm. The company said the fund remittance is part of the province’s...
The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) is appealing to the local government units (LGUs) within the so-called ‘NCR plus bubble’ to allow ‘onsite meter reading’ on consumers’ actual power consumption so another episode of confusing electric billing reminiscent of last year’s chaos could...
The joint venture of Norwegian firm SN Power and Aboitiz Power Corporation would be stepping back on the implementation of the proposed $1.0 billion Alimit hydropower project due to remaining permitting concern that has yet to be resolved with the host community as well as on the grid connection of...
As weather temperature rises, so as the electric bills that consumers will be paying with initial estimates that the rates of giant power utility firm Manila Electric Company (Meralco) will be going up in April billing. According to Meralco Vice President and Spokesperson Joe Zaldarriaga, “based...
Listed firm Aboitiz Power Corporation will be shifting most of its power investments into the renewable energy (RE) development terrain in the next decade, with strategic focus on key markets in the Philippines and overseas, according to company president and chief executive officer Emmanuel V....
The customers of Manila Electric Company (Meralco) who will be locked up in their homes because of the re-imposition of enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) during the Holy Week will not need to worry about probable service cut-off, because the utility firm has extended its ‘no disconnection’...
