HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRIPEVINE: OUR NEW ABNORMAL In late November, we mounted our first Manila Bulletin Sustainability Forum, and the over-arching idea was to bring home to the public, and to the business community, how there already exists a multitude of touch points for sustainability and ESG...
Scholarship program for women engineers The Manila Electric Co. (Meralco) has awarded 18 female college students from different universities with scholarship grants that will help them pursue their dreams of becoming professional electrical engineers. The scholarship will cover the expenses of the...
Power utility giant Manila Electric Company (Meralco) has already kicked off the competitive selection process (CSP) or bidding for the procurement of additional 480 megawatts of capacity that would augment power supply, especially during the peak demand-months of summer. Based on approval rendered...
The Department of Energy (DOE) has lined up contingency measures to stem probable power service interruptions during the two-week maintenance shutdown of the Malampaya gas production facility in Feb. 4 to 18, 2023. Primary step pushed by the energy department is the designation of a “must-run...
Power utility giant Manila Electric Co. (Meralco) will be engaging the participation of more interruptible load program (ILP) participants, so it can mollify intensifying threats of power service interruptions that may torture consumers next year, especially during the summer months. Heeding the...
As its 7.6 million customers will take the brunt of higher electricity rates, power utility giant Manila Electric Company (Meralco) has formally asked the Court of Appeals to lift the 60-day temporary restraining order (TRO) it issued that junked the P0.30 per kilowatt hour (kWh) rate hike petition...
A limited hedge on fuel supply procurement that a power generator can avail of has been the major justification cited by Aboitiz Power Corporation for the higher rate of P5.69 per kilowatt hour (kWh) it offered to Manila Electric Company (Meralco) in their emergency power supply agreement (EPSA)....
The joint venture of Aboitiz Power Corporation and AC Energy and Infrastructure Corp. of the Ayala group will be selling electricity to Manila Electric Company (Meralco) for a rate higher by P1.65 per kilowatt hour (kWh) to P5.96 per kWh compared with the cheaper P4.31 per kWh rate of South...
PANAY Energy Development Corp. (PEDC), a subsidiary of Meralco PowerGen Corp. (MGen), generates 314 megawatts of electricity at its power plant in Iloilo City. (Tara Yap) ILOILO CITY – A major power company is eyeing to construct a solar power plant in Iloilo province as it gears to expand its...
Spectrum, the solar solutions subsidiary of Manila Electric Company (Meralco), has installed the solar rooftop facility of North Bound Infinity Real Estate Development, Inc., a warehouse provider in Bulacan province. The power firm announced on Tuesday, Dec. 13, the inauguration of the 98.28...
Power utility giant Manila Electric Company (Meralco) has formally asked South Premiere Power Corporation (SPPC) to pay the "price difference" it incurs after the San Miguel Corp. unit stopped supplying capacity from its Ilijan plant. In a letter on Monday, Dec. 12, 2022 addressed to SPCC General...
The Philippine subsidiary of American oil giant Chevron Corporation has renewed its contract with Quezon Power Phils Ltd. Co. (QPPL) for oil supply, an essential as start-up fuel for the 460-megawatt coal-fired power plant of the latter in Mauban, Quezon. Coal-fired power generating facilities...
