Transmission firm National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) is seeking lawmakers’ imprimatur for it to be allowed to import Covid-19 vaccine tax-free as these doses will be used for its employees. NGCP President Anthony L. Almeda said with this gesture from the State, businesses would...
Transmission firm National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) has completed and energized the 230-kilovolt Toril-Bunawan transmission line, which forms the final loop of the P7.09 billion Mindanao backbone project. With the project’s completion, the company noted that “this will secure...
Private transmission firm National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) has successfully completed the reinforcement of the 230-kilovolt San Jose-Quezon transmission line in the Luzon grid to prepare the system for targeted capacity additions....
Transmission system operator National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) set the record straight that it should not be blamed for the severe flooding incidents in Cagayan and Isabela provinces, because the company is not involved in matters relating to the release of water from the Magat...
Typhoon “Ulysses” showed its wrath not just with its blustering wind and the volume of rain it dumped on some areas, but also with brownouts while it pummeled Metro Manila and various parts of Luzon Thursday. A fisherman secures his wooden boat on a road in Santo Domingo, Albay province on...
Electricity service restoration in typhoon-ravaged provinces in the Bicol region is now on its accelerated pace, with power supply already back in Naga City and three towns in Camarines Sur; while several towns in Camarines Norte already gained back their power service. In an update report of the...
With the energization of its new 138-kilovolt (kV) Butuan-Placer transmission line this month, system operator National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) indicated that reliability on wheeling of generated power will be scaled up in northeastern Mindanao. The recently completed project...
The Department of Energy (DOE) has openly declared its ‘preferential treatment’ for renewable energy (RE) projects, but the government’s attention is also being called on managing concerns of efficient grid integration to avoid brownouts; as well as the competition that massive solar farm...
Private transmission firm National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) is re-evaluating the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, primarily on its major projects like the P52 billion Mindanao-Visayas Interconnection Project. In a statement to the media, the company said it is “eager to...
