The relentless rise in fuel prices will continue this week for all fuel products, including that of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), which is the preferred commodity by most Filipino households for cooking. As advised by the oil companies, gasoline prices will increase by P1.00 per liter in this...
At least 13 new customers – mostly buildings and water pumping stations in Metro Manila that include Maynilad Water Services Inc. – have switched electricity suppliers following the threshold lowering of the Retail Competition and Open Access (RCOA) policy by February this year. In a briefing...
Expenses for fuel will take its pinch on consumers’ pockets again this week, with substantial increases calculated across products that are retailed at the pumps due to the continuously rising prices in the world market. Based on estimates of the industry players, gasoline prices will go up by...
Pangilinan-led PXP Energy Corporation has substantially trimmed its consolidated net loss last year to P76.3 million compared to a considerably enormous scale of P297.2 million in 2019. On a core net loss basis, the company was also able to bring that down to P45.7 million in 2020 versus the...
With cyclical temperature rise, the operator of the Wholesale Electricity Spot Market (WESM) is forecasting demand increases during the summer months, primarily around April to May this year. Nevertheless, according to Engineer John Paul Grayda, manager for pricing validation and analysis of...
Diversified conglomerate San Miguel Corporation (SMC) is inclined to resolve at the negotiating table the P23.94 billion billing dispute of its subsidiary South Premiere Power Corporation (SPPC) with state-run Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management Corporation (PSALM) for the 1,200-megawatt...
Customers of Manila Electric Company (Meralco) can expect financial relief on their electric bills next month, as this is expected to be on downtrend, according to company Vice President and Spokesperson Joe Zaldarriaga. “Based on initial projections, there is a strong likelihood that power rates...
The country’s electric cooperatives (ECs) are prodded to undertake their competitive selection process (CSP) on power supply agreements (PSAs) to guarantee that they will not suffer supply shortages in the immediate term, especially with the portended economic recovery post-pandemic. To ensure...
One generating unit of the 632-megawatt GNPower Mariveles Center Ltd. Co. (GMEC) coal-fired plant of the Aboitiz-Ayala joint venture suffered ‘forced outage’ due to technical glitch in its boiler. In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange, Aboitiz Power Corporation indicated that unit 1...
Garcia-led Vivant Energy Corporation has expanded its power investments in Mindanao, and this was concretized via an equity acquisition in power generation facility owned by Senator Juan Miguel Zubiri. In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE), Vivant stated that, in tandem with its...
As typhoon season has kicked off again this year, the Department of Energy (DOE) is seeking stronger ‘emergency protocols’ that shall be instituted by the power industry, as response to the strike of natural calamities. According to Energy Secretary Alfonso G. Cusi, there is a need among...
Through the mandated appointment of energy efficiency and conservation (EE&C) practitioners, the Department of Energy (DOE) will be enforcing stricter compliance to the prescriptions of the Energy Efficiency and Conservation (EE&C) Act or Republic Act 11285, primarily across...
