Aboitiz InfraCapital (AIC), one of the country’s leading infrastructure companies, is strategically expanding its portfolio to Central Luzon with plans to develop a 200-hectare economic estate in Tarlac City. In a statement, the firm said its subsidiary LIMA Land Inc. has acquired the 200 hectare...
The targeted mandatory pie for power supply agreements (PSA) anchored on gas-fed power generating facilities will just be confined to gas volumes that will be extracted from the Malampaya field, according to a ranking Department of Energy (DOE) official. Energy Undersecretary Rowena L. Guevara...
The Department of Energy (DOE) has been swamped with questions as well as dissent from various quarters on its plan to enforce a policy that will mandate distribution utilities (DUs), primarily those in the Luzon grid, to procure prescribed percentage of their supply from gas-fired power...
Officials of a top nuclear energy firm based in the United States (US) on Monday, May 1 (US time), disclosed plans to invest in the Philippines after a meeting with President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. in Washington D.C. Philippine officials' meeting with executives of United States-based NuScale Power...
Razon-led Prime Infrastructure Capital Inc. has partnered with Chinese firm PowerChina B7 Philippines Corp. (PowerChina) for the commercial development of its 140-megawatt solar farm project in Tanauan, Batangas and Marogondon, Cavite. That project serves as an expansion of the 100MW solar...
The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has committed to support the Philippine government's infrastructure projects that are focused on socio-economic development, the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) said on Sunday, Feb. 12. During his state visit in Japan, President...
Aiming to avoid delays in the implementation of public works projects, the House of Representatives on Monday, Feb. 6, passed on the third and final reading a bill expediting the acquisition of right of way (ROW) for various national government infrastructure projects that would bring development...
Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) Senior Undersecretary Emil Sadain has presented the Philippines' “build back better’’ approach in the planning for infrastructure projects at the International Recovery Forum (IRF) 2023 in Kobe, Japan. In a statement released on Tuesday, Jan. 31,...
The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) called on the local government units (LGUs) in Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) to be wary of groups promising to fast-track the release of funds for their infrastructure projects. The appeal was made after reports reached the...
The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) will hold a six-day training in a bid to enhance the capabilities of its district engineers on the accessibility audit in connection with the law that seeks to provide a safer and more comfortable mobility of the persons with disabilities (PWDs)....
The Department of Transportation (DOTr) is privatizing several infrastructure projects in two batches as part of the state's public-private partnership program (PPP). The first batch includes the NCR EDSA Busway and the North Long Haul Inter-Regional Railway (NCR-Ilocos, Cagayan). The second batch...
WawaJVCo Inc., a joint venture of Prime Infra and San Lorenzo Ruiz Builders and Developers Group, has started commercial operations of the first phase of its Bulk Water Supply Project. In a statement, Prime Infra of tycoon Enrique Razon Jr. said Phase 1 is designed to deliver an initial 80 million...
