Hydrogène de France (HDF Energy) and partner-firms are targeting to invest $1.5 billion for the rollout of green hydrogen solutions across 15 project-sites in the country – primarily areas in Mindanao that are physically isolated from the main grid and have been relying heavily on diesel-fired...
The Department of Energy (DOE) has instructed players in the deregulated downstream oil industry to assess the quality of their fuel products before these are retailed to customers – primarily if there had been infiltration of floodwaters in their underground storage facilities or if some...
The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) is scheduling next week the deliberations on the deferred cost recoveries of liquefied natural gas (LNG) that First Gen Corporation had utilized for electricity generation at its gas-fed power plants in Batangas. As full pass-on of LNG costs had not been...
The gigawatt-scale of offshore wind projects being advanced into commercial development by London-headquartered Corio Generation had secured ‘green lane’ certification from the Board of Investments (BOI) as underpinned by Executive Order 18 issued by President Marcos. The certification will...
Yuchengco-led PetroGreen Energy Corporation (PGEC) has cemented a partnership deal with Japanese firm Isuzu Autoparts Manufacturing Corporation (IAMC) for the installation of 3.002-megawatt peak (MWp) solar rooftop solution at the latter’s manufacturing facility in Laguna. In a statement to the...
The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) is anticipated to render decisions that will enforce penalties on the ‘unjustified’ transmission project delays of the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) as well as the indefensible forced outages of power plants during the summer months....
President Marcos has called on Congress to work with the Executive branch in reviewing the Electric Power Industry Reform Act (EPIRA). President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. (Noel Pabalate) In his third State of the Nation Address (SONA) on Monday, July 22, Marcos made the call to determine if...
As the generation companies (GenCos) miserably faltered with their relentless forced outages during the summer months, President Marcos has profoundly cheered the P160 billion worth of completed transmission projects of system operator National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) in his...
Senator Pia Cayetano vowed to steward the passage of a bill that would set policy for the further development of Philippine natural gas. Cayetano, who chairs the Senate Committee on Energy, said that the bill, the proposed Philippine Downstream Natural Gas Industry Development Act, is being...
The Department of Energy (DOE) is stepping up efforts on the accelerated compliance of government agencies and entities on the mandated 10 percent savings on energy usage that they must achieve, as prescribed under Administrative Order (AO) 15 that was issued by President Marcos early this year. To...
Lights on? or lights off? That’s not one of the typical ‘fast talk’ questions being thrown by a country’s well-known television host, rather, that is a state of the country’s power supply that primarily distressed Filipino consumers in this year’s summer months. In the third State of...
The uptrend in the tariff of Manila Electric Company (Meralco) in its July billing will strain its customers’ household budgets, but a survey of selected power utilities in various parts of the country would show that its rate hike is still leaner versus peer-distribution firms. Meralco announced...