Lopez-led First Gen Corporation net income declined by eight percent to $194 million in three quarters this year from the year-ago level of $211 million. But due to the depreciation of the Philippine peso versus the US dollar, the company was able to register flat earnings at P10.2 billion during...
Customers of Manila Electric Company (Meralco) will experience higher electric bills this month as its overall tariff went up by P0.0844 per kilowatt hour (kWh) to P9.9472 per kWh this November from the previous month’s P9.8628 per kWh. For residential end-users in the 200 kWh consumption band,...
Owing to disrupted fuel supply in its gas-fired power plants due to the depleting state of the Malampaya gas field, the recurring net income of First Gen Corporation in the first half decelerated by 13 percent to P6.6 billion ($128 million) from a rosier financial outcome of P7.8 billion ($148...
Food manufacturer Monde Nissin Corporation (MNC) has inked a power supply agreement (PSA) with Energy Development Corporation (EDC), for it to source electricity supply from a renewable energy-generated resource. According to EDC, which is a subsidiary firm of Lopez-led First Gen Corporation, the...
Razon-led MORE Electric and Power Corporation will tap 20 megawatts of its electricity supply from Energy Development Corporation (EDC), a subsidiary of First Gen Corporation of the Lopez group. MORE Power will be utilizing the contracted power supply in servicing its roughly 87,000 customers in...
Lopez-led First Gen Corporation is seeking the approval of the Department of the Energy (DOE) on its bid for a six-month extension of the license for its interim offshore liquefied natural gas (LNG) import facility given delays that it has been encountering in the project’s implementation. In a...
TDK Philippines Corp., a manufacturing firm for electronic components, had shifted its electricity service usage to renewable energy (RE) and will tap Energy Development Corp. (EDC) of Lopez-led First Gen Corp. for its supply. The TDK Group said it had taken this move for its entire manufacturing...
Lopez-led First Gen Corp. posted a lower net income of $59 million (P3 billion) in the first quarter this year, down by 24.36 percent from $78 billion (P3.8 billion) same period in 2021 due to gas supply problems and bad weather. Its revenues, meantime, rose by 18 percent to $570 million (P29.1...
The Department of Energy (DOE) indicated that out of the seven liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects with government permits, only two gas import facilities may actually reach completion while four others are experiencing delays and another one already dropped from the race. In a briefing with the...
Lopez-led First Gen Corporation and Energy Development Corporation (EDC) have signed up at least 11 new customers for power supply agreements (PSAs) anchored on the Green Energy Option Program (GEOP) instituted by the government. First Gen-EDC's new customers include Asahi Electrical Manufacturing...
Leisure and business hotel The Linden Suites has shifted its electricity usage to renewable energy (RE) by underwriting a power supply agreement (PSA) under the Green Energy Option Program (GEOP) offer of First Gen Corporation and Energy Development Corporation of the Lopez group. According to Ma....
Lopez-led First Gen Corporation, the country’s clean energy leader, is accelerating on its deployment of green mobility solutions across the chain of its businesses – and this time, it is pilot-testing “Greenwheels” which will be its electric vehicle (EV) project. The EV proof-of-concept...
