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Senators on Wednesday, May 24 expressed their disappointment after officials of the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) confirmed earlier claims that most of its profits went to the pockets its stockholders. This was bared by NGCP Assistant Corporate Secretary Ronald Dylan Concepcion...

The Department of Energy (DOE) has vowed to implement measures that will lessen the cost of electricity in the country, which is described as one of the most expensive in Asia. One of the measures being eyed is the continuity of lifeline rate subsidy as among the programs that is seen as an...

Senator Sherwin Gatchalian is seeking passage of a measure that would open up the country’s electricity market by lifting the public offering requirement provision in the Electric Power Industry Reform Act or EPIRA Law to lure more generation companies into investing in the Philippines....

The House Committee on Energy on Monday, May 24 approved a bill that would give the Joint Congressional Energy Commission (JCEC) a permanent status, removing in the process its expiration as a body exercising oversight functions on the energy sector. In a committee hearing alternately presided over...