Government-run National Electrification Administration (NEA) has given electric cooperatives (ECs) up to May 15 this year to submit documents justifying their request for budget for their sitio electrification program (SEP) and other priority projects. In a statement to the media, NEA indicated...
The National Electrification Administration (NEA) will be knocking on the doors of the Executive Branch and Congress to secure up to P29.542 billion budget to bankroll the country’s multi-tiered electrification rollout until the end of the Marcos administration in 2028. According to NEA...
The embassy of the Czech Republic in the Philippines has completed an electrification project for a tribal community in Botolan, Zambales. A photovoltaic electrification project in the mountainous area of Sitio Nacolcol was launched as the embassy partnered with Project Liwanag to carry out its...
The new leadership at the Department of Energy (DOE) will prioritize fulfillment of 100-percent electrification target on all households nationwide, a goal that the Duterte administration had failed to deliver. “We’ve got to address the security, as we address as well the matter of protecting...
With incessantly rising fuel prices in the world market, the country’s electric cooperatives (ECs) had been ordered to implement cost cutting measures in their operations so as not to create additional burden to consumers. The National Electrification Administration (NEA) told the ECs to “to...
Senator Sherwin Gatchalian on Friday urged the National Electrification Administration (NEA) and the Department of Energy (DOE) to recall NEA’s most recent memoranda in appointing general managers (GMs) of electric cooperatives (ECs) saying that agency violated the law as it went beyond its...
The passage of the Microgrid Systems Act or Republic Act No. 11646 is expected to hasten the electrification of all households and communities in various parts of the country. Senate Committee on Energy Chairman Sherwin Gatchalian Electrification is a government goal that had been very tough to...
President Duterte has signed into law the measure that promotes the use of microgrid systems to accelerate the total electrification of underserved and unserved areas nationwide. President Rodrigo Duterte (Malacañang photo) Duterte signed Republic Act (RA) No. 11646 or the Microgrid Systems Act...
Senator Christopher “Bong” Go on Monday welcomed the signing into law of the measure that promotes the use of microgrid systems as it would help accelerate the total electrification in unserved and underserved areas in the country. President Duterte has signed Republic Act No. 11646 or the...
Senator Sherwin Gatchalian on Sunday urged the National Electrification Administrtaion (NEA) to immediately utilize the Electric Cooperatives Emergency and Resiliency Fund (ECERF) to help electric cooperatives affected by Typhoon Odette restore power lines within their areas. Gatchalian, who chairs...
Malacañang is looking to implement changes in its electrification game plan in a bid to achieve 100 percent electrification of the country by 2022--the last year of the Duterte administration. (Kai Gradert/ Unsplash) President Duterte signed Executive Order (EO) No.156 on Friday, Dec. 10 in order...
The National Electrification Administration (NEA) should earmark some of its budget for the residents in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM), Senator Sherwin Gatchalian said. Gatchalian, chair of the Senate Energy Committee, noted that not a single centavo of its proposed...
