Senator Sherwin Gatchalian has joined calls for a congressional inquiry into the alleged forceful take over of the Bengue Electric Cooperative (BENECO) offices to shed light on the circumstances leading to changes in its management. Gatchalian, who chairs the Senate Committee on Energy, said he is...
The National Electrification Administration has (NEA) has extended the submission of the mandated Renewable Energy Development Plan (REDP) by the country’s electric cooperatives (ECs) to give them longer leeway to prepare. The deadline has been extended from October 27 to to Nov. 5 this year....
Opposition Senator Leila de Lima has called for a congressional probe into the reported takeover of the Benguet Electric Cooperative (BENECO) by the National Electrification Administration (NEA). De Lima, chair of the Senate Committee on Social Justice, Welfare and Rural Development, has filed...
A 10-year ‘graduation plan’ on systematic reduction and eventual scrapping of subsidy in off-grid areas, or those jurisdictions not physically connected to the main power grids, is being pushed by the Department of Energy. In a draft circular, the DOE directed the National Transmission...
Government-run National Electrification Administration (NEA) got an allocation of P1.8 billion budget only for its electrification mandate, enormously falling short of the P18 billion funding needed to fully meet the nationwide energization of all households until June next year as promised by the...
With typhoons aiming their blows on the country again, the National Electrification Administration (NEA) announced that it has been accelerating the release of loans to the country’s electric cooperatives (ECs), including calamity loans that they can use in the repair of their facilities. NEA...
After massive power interruptions that affected more than 1.5 million Filipino customers as an aftermath of tropical storm Jolina, Energy Secretary Alfonso G. Cusi is calling on all power industry players to intensify their preparations and reinforce contingency measures to minimize brownout...
Energy Secretary Alfonso G. Cusi has been sorting out solutions to improve power supply situation in off-grid areas, or those islands that are not physically connected to the main grid. The energy chief said the template solution that the Department of Energy (DOE) has been working on is that on...
National Electrification Administration (NEA) Deputy Administrator Sonia San Diego has been designated as officer-in-charge, following the exit of Edgardo R. Masongsong, who was booted out as Administrator of the agency on allegations of corruption. No less than President Rodrigo Duterte has made...
The Department of Energy (DOE) is painting a scenario that electricity supply will be enough during the election period next year, but the supply-demand outlook it presented to media has not taken into account critical factors yet – including the recurring forced outages of power plants, the gas...
Government-run National Electrification Administration (NEA) has extended P5.628 billion worth of loans to electric cooperatives (ECs) at the duration of the Duterte administration. According to NEA Administrator Edgardo R. Masongsong, the loans extended to the ECs had been via the agency’s...
The boom-and-bust cycle in the electric power industry will not likely spare the country’s May 9, 2022 elections from rotational blackouts following the Department of Energy's (DOE) pronouncement that power supply within the polling period will be thin. 25581 “For 2022, we see the thinning of...
