Due to higher revenues it fetched from lease contracts, Citicore Energy REIT Corp. (CREIT) has increased its declared dividends to P0.049 per share for the second quarter this year, up 11.4-percent from P0.044 in the same period last year. The company reported that its revenues climbed 21-percent...
Aboitiz Power Corporation, via its subsidiary Aboitiz Renewables Inc. (ARI), is lining up the construction of two solar power projects that will add up 383.7-megawatt aggregate capacity to its renewable energy (RE) portfolio. The projects taking off from the company’s drawing board will be the...
Uptrend in sales from its operating renewable energy (RE) assets had driven up the net income of Yuchengco-led PetroEnergy Resources Corporation (PERC) to P591 million in this year’s first half versus P506 million a year ago. “Higher electricity sales from its renewable energy (RE) operating...
Ayala-led ACEN Corporation will be delivering 100-percent renewable energy (RE) power supply to the 25-floor JPMorgan Chase Tower at the Fort Bonifacio Global City in Taguig, the corporate headquarters of the multinational banking and financial services firm in the country. In a media statement,...
Propped by strong performance of its power plant operations, the net income of Alcantara-led Alsons Consolidated Resources Inc. (ACR) climbed 70-percent to P1.17 billion within this year’s first half from a leaner level of P689 million within parallel period last year. That strong showing on its...
Investors in the renewable energy (RE) sector are intensifying their call on the inclusion of hybrid solar and energy storage in the next round of green energy auction (GEA) by the Department of Energy (DOE). The RE investors said the combination of hybrid solar and energy storage is the "silver...
The Department of Energy (DOE) has endorsed at least 74 new projects this year that will advance into the system impact study (SIS) phase by system operator National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP). SIS refers to an engineering study that will comprehensively assess if additional...
Oil companies will implement another round of massive price hikes with gasoline prices anticipated to rise P1.60 to P2.00 per liter. Diesel users will also brace for a fresh increase of P1.15 to P1.45 per liter while kerosene prices will have a heftier upswing of P2.00 to P2.40 per liter. The...
Senator Sherwin Gatchalian on Friday, August 11, commended the Energy Regulatory Commission’s (ERC) decision to suspend the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) inclusion of a three percent (3%) franchise tax in its transmission costs billed to distribution utilities. Sen....
President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. said that the Philippines' push for clean energy would be at the top of his agenda during his participation in the November Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders' Meeting in California. File photos (Malacañang, APECSF23) Marcos...
Razon-led MORE Electric and Power Corporation (MORE Power) has conducted on-site registration at the barangay level to entice 4Ps beneficiaries and other marginalized power consumers knowns as "lifeline consumers" to avail of electricity rate discounts mandated by law. The company said it will...
Owing to profit contribution of its all-renewable energy (RE) subsidiary, First Gen Corporation has posted a 30 percent hike in its recurring net income to $167 million, approximately P9.0 billion, in the first half of the year versus $128 million or P7.0 billion, in the same period last...
