As the country’s power facilities are highly vulnerable when natural calamities strike, system operator National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) has also been working double time to reinforce the disaster-preparedness of partner-communities so they can be prepared when they are pounded...
Senator Nancy Binay today (March 3) urged the Department of Energy (DOE) to focus on immediately shoring up the country’s thinning power reserves rather than busying itself on other concerns. “Rather than looking too far ahead, the energy department should look at the problem that’s staring...
A “special settlement arrangement” is being firmed up for the trading of capacity in the Wholesale Electricity Spot Market (WESM) for the scheduled energization of the P52-billion Mindanao-Visayas Interconnection Project (MVIP), or the link-up of power grids in the two islands as concretized by...
The P52-billion Mindanao-Visayas Interconnection Project (MVIP) of transmission firm National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) will add an initial 300-megawatt to energy-starved Luzon grid starting June this year, according to the Department of Energy. That will then help save Luzon grid...
After the onslaught of Typhoon Odette in December 2021, the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) immediately rolled out its relief efforts for severely affected communities. The company provided P27.5M-worth of assistance in the form of relief packs, hot meals, sacks of rice, bottles...
System operator National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) has formally opened its tendering process for the procurement of ancillary services or power reserves for a contract term of five years. In a “notice of invitation to bid”, the transmission firm said it will be securing 5-year...
The Department of Energy (DOE) should buckle down to work and address the power supply situation in the country before it gets worse. Senator Sherwin Gatchalian, chair of the Senate Committee on Energy, said the DOE should not pass the buck since it has the legal mandate and power to compel...
In line with its warning of thin power supply during the summer months, system operator National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) is being required by the Department of Energy (DOE) to contract ample power reserves. The DOE directive is to ensure available capacity augmentation when...
As thin power supply predicaments had already been raised during the summer months, a lawmaker sounded off fears that the occurrence of rotational blackouts could distort poll results during the May 9 national elections. House Deputy Minority Leader and Bayan Muna Representative Carlos Isagani...
After more than a month, the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) has finally lifted the enforced “market suspension” for the Wholesale Electricity Spot Market (WESM) in the Visayas grid following last December’s battering of Typhoon Odette. Energy Regulatory Commission The spot market...
System operator National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) has raised alarm bells of ‘thin power supply’ during the summer months - April to June. NGCP forthrightly stated there will be “thin power supply this summer due to higher demand in the new normal,” especially so since the...
To avoid rotational blackouts during the summer months, the Department of Energy (DOE) said the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) should move or adjust the schedule of preventive maintenance shutdowns of power plants, primarily for those in the Luzon grid. Department of Energy...
