As genuine sustainability will eventually determine winners and losers across businesses and nations, the companies and organizations in the Philippines that have been leading the climate action via the Net Zero Carbon Alliance (NZCA) are targeting to institutionalize a science-based and credible...
Leading clean energy developer First Gen Corporation is lining up 9,000 megawatts of renewable energy (RE) investments to concretize its well-calculated journey to net zero – and this business decision is out to prove that sustainability and profitability can go hand in hand without frying the...
With additional revenues to be drawn from geothermal assets that are coming on commercial stream, Lopez-led First Gen Corporation is expecting overall profit boost this year, according to a top executive of the company. First President and COO Francis Giles B. Puno indicated that at least 83...
While many Philippine corporates are just riding the green energy wave with empty rhetoric and some have been merely using "net zero pledges" as superficial propaganda tool in their business playbook, the genuinely serious ones are promising to re-assess commitments with concrete baselines and...
Top Line Business Development Corporation (Top Line) is planning to build fuel depots in Mactan and Bohol with a combined storage capacity of 30 million liters to support the continued expansion of its fuel retailing business in the Visayas. Based on the firm’s draft prospectus filed with the...
Lopez-led First Gen Corporation will supply geothermal-generated electricity to global cement firm Holcim for the operation of its manufacturing plants in Mindanao. That green power supply draw will be a key component of the latter’s decarbonization journey. In the power supply agreement (PSA)...
State-run Clark Development Corp. (CDC) announced that Taiwanese firm BB International Leisure and Resort Development Corp. (BBILRDC) is expanding its investments in Clark, Pampanga. In a statement, Agnes VST Devanadera, CDC president and chief executive officer, said that BBILRDC is injecting an...
Lopez-led ThermaPrime Drilling Corporation (ThermaPrime) has beefed up its geothermal drilling business segment with three more rigs that it can immediately utilize for the expansion of its operations. According to the company, two of the newly acquired drilling rigs are of 1,500 horsepower (hp);...
Cebu-based Top Line Business Development Corp. (Topline) is pursuing robust expansion on its core business in the fuel industry, primarily to meet the growing needs of retail as well as commercial end-users in its main market in the Visayas. According to Topline Chairman Erik Lim, who is also the...
The commercial operations of the P7.0 billion Palayan binary geothermal power project of Energy Development Corporation (EDC) will partly quench the energy thirst of the Luzon grid, as this will add up 28.9 megawatts into the system. The facility serves as an expansion of its 140MW Bacon-Manito...
Its wings may have already fallen silent since its untimely demise in September last year, but renewable energy (RE) firm Energy Development Corporation (EDC) of the First Gen group has taken a high-principled step of preserving the lasting legacy of “Geothermica”, also nicknamed “Geo”, the...
First Philippine Holdings Corporation (FPHC), a member of the Lopez Group, is kicking off the operation of seven power plants worth P29.3 billion this year through Energy Development Corporation (EDC). During the firm’s annual stockholders’ meeting, FPHC President Francis Giles B. Puno said...
