The Philippine Independent Power Producers Association (PIPPA) reassured its commitment to collaborate with the energy sector to achieve the electrification and energy security goals mentioned by President Marcos in his fourth State of the Nation Address (SONA). In a statement, PIPPA expressed its...
Luzon and Visayas grids are having a race against time when it comes to capacity additions – that is if the country has to seriously avoid the dire consequences of threatening power crisis into these two major power grids. The Philippine Independent Power Producers Association Inc. (PIPPA)...
The aggrupation of generation companies (GenCos) has been batting for the scrapping of the P6.245 per kilowatt hour (kWh) secondary price cap in the Wholesale Electricity Spot Market (WESM) as this is already pinned down as disincentive to the targeted fresh capital flow in the power industry. In...
Relevant stakeholders in the power industry are already advancing priority policy proposals and offering help to Energy Secretary-nominee Raphael Perpetuo M. Lotilla, primarily in addressing the recurring dilemma of thinning power supply as well as the country’s energy transition agenda to be...
The Philippine Independent Power Producers Association Inc. (PIPPA), an organization of the country’s energy generation companies (GenCos), has been prodding for the contracting of sufficient power reserves to guarantee reliability of power, especially during the election period. The appeal of...
The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) is reviewing the proposed lifting of the P6.245 per kilowatt hour (kWh) secondary price cap (SCP) at the Wholesale Electricity Spot Market (WESM) after an appeal from the power generators due to soaring fuel prices in the world market. The generation companies...
The Department of Energy (DOE) is batting for the issuance of an Executive Order (EO) by President Rodrigo Duterte to suspend the 7.0 percent import duty on coal imports that will be utilized for power generation, so consumers will not be saddled with exorbitant electricity rates. In a briefing...
The Department of Energy (DOE) and players in the electric power industry are appealing for temporary exemption on the payment of value added taxes (VAT) as well as suspension of excise taxes for coal and oil as fuel for power generation, to spare Filipino consumers from drastic spikes in...
The Department of Energy (DOE) has required the country’s coal-fired power plants to submit full report of their ‘fuel inventories’, including shipment details that they may encounter if the Indonesian coal export ban is lifted. “We required them (power firms) full reports...the...
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...
