In most energy sector meetings and social gatherings, the usual power talk comes with an added juicy coffee shop conspiracy—that the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) would still be jolted with leadership changeover in due time. If—and when—it happens, and the whys and hows of it—they...
The Department of Energy’s (DOE) confidence in a "stable" power supply this summer sounds reassuring, but is this built on hard facts and long-term fixes—or are we just rolling the dice on luck and good weather until the next energy crisis slams us? Hmm, let’s be honest—I know what you did...
Like a high voltage shock, the 20 percent shares sell-down of the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines, via parent firm Synergy Grid and Development Philippines, Inc., sent the entire industry reeling last week, and The missing piece of the puzzle had been: what covert forces were at play...
While most investors around the world are scrambling to ditch coal plants like bad habits, a defiant European billionaire is still pushing all his chips in for this technology - scooping up these assets in a brazen move to cement coal’s place in the energy mix for many more decades to come. Czech...
Saving the planet isn’t as squeaky clean as it’s hyped to be – as some quarters of the green energy sector have been morphing as hotspot for carbon emissions trading scams and potential money laundering havens, leaving well-intentioned investors caught into the crossfire of the ‘dirty...
Every trip to the gas pump feels like a rigged pop quiz that you will flunk no matter what. Will fuel cost unbundling finally give us the cheat sheet to be truly informed and consequently generate savings—or are we just dreaming? For over two decades since the deregulation of the downstream oil...
Energy might not be the life of the party, but for Einstein-in-the-making patriots, it’s the ultimate glow-up—because who needs ‘just exciting’ when you’ve got a ‘bright’ and squeaky-clean energy future lighting the way, right? Via the Department of Science and Technology’s ...
Le sigh! That echoes not just a simple agony of ‘powerlessness’ – it symbolizes ‘defeated sigh’ of frustrated consumers and a warning cry of ‘energy insecurity’. The Electric Power Industry Reform Act (EPIRA) was enforced over 20 years ago, and consumers were lured into sweet...
