Senate President Vicente "Tito" Sotto III said on Monday, Oct. 6, that there 's no legal framework for the conduct of snap elections. This was in response to Senator Alan Peter Cayetano 's call on Sunday to all sitting government officials — from Congress to Malacañang — to resign...
Senate President Pro Tempore Panfilo “Ping” Lacson on Monday, October 6 stressed it is the certainty of punishment of corrupt government officials that would help restore the public’s trust in government. Lacson pointed this out as he dismissed Senate Minority Leader Alan Peter Cayetano’s...
Amid Senator Alan Peter Cayetano’s call for snap elections, Communications Undersecretary Claire Castro said on Monday, Oct. 6, that President Marcos has no time for politics and advised the senator to focus on serving the people instead. “It is just his wishful thinking. We do not have time to...
Former Taguig mayor Lino Cayetano is supporting the call of his brother, Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano, for elected officials to resign and for the holding of a snap election but said it should start at the local level in the city. “I support this proposal. I agree with my brother Alan and ask that...
SN Aboitiz Power Group (SNAP) is ramping up its efforts to build more renewable energy (RE) projects beyond hydropower assets. In an ambush interview, SNAP President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Joseph Yu said that there are more projects in the pipeline, which hold less than 300 megawatts...
Renewable energy firm SN Aboitiz Power Group (SNAP) has cemented a deal with state-run National Power Corporation (SNAP) for the adoption of a 1,000-hectare watershed area, which is within 2.5-kilometer radius of the reservoir underpinning the former’s 252.5-megawatt Ambuklao-Binga hydropower...
Joint venture firm SN Aboitiz Power (SNAP) has inked power supply agreements (PSAs) for the procurement of electric capacity from power plants owned by PetroGreen Energy Corporation (PGEC) and PetroSolar Corporation (PSC) of the Yuchengco group. In a statement to the media, SNAP indicated that the...
Aboitiz Power Corporation is evaluating the "premium" it could generate from the planned initial public offering (IPO) of its subsidiary, Aboitiz Renewables Inc. (ARI), which houses the various renewable energy assets of the group. According to Aboitiz Power Chief Financial Officer Liza Luv T....
Norwegian firm Scatec ASA has announced plan to expand its renewable energy investments in the Philippines, primarily on the sphere of solar, wind, hydro and battery energy storage system (BESS) installations. During the groundbreaking rites of the 20-megawatt BESS project of SN Aboitiz Power...
SN Aboitiz Power Group (SNAP), a joint venture between Norwegian firm Scatec and Aboitiz Power Corporation, has tapped Japanese firm Hitachi Energy for the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract of its 20-megawatt battery energy storage system (BESS) project to be installed at its...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma How important are the coming elections in shaping the future of the nation? An election could change the course that a country will take for an entire generation. Consider the snap elections held on Feb. 7, 1986. Recall that this event sparked a massive wave of protest...
A ‘settlement and release agreement’ had been inked between SN Aboitiz Power Inc. (SNAP) and government-run National Irrigation Administration (NIA) on the treatment as well as resolution of concerns for the Magat dam and linked hydro facilities in Northern Luzon - primarily those relating to...
