The Independent Electricity Market Operator of the Philippines (IEMOP) reported a decline in Wholesale Electricity Spot Market (WESM) prices in February due to increased supply in the system. Data from IEMOP showed that the average system price declined by 7.8 percent to ₱2.73 per kilowatt-hour...
The Independent Electricity Market Operator of the Philippines (IEMOP) reported a substantial drop in electricity prices for January, driven by lower demand and increased supply. In a statement released on Tuesday, February 4, IEMOP said that the average electricity price in the Wholesale...
The Independent Electricity Market Operator of the Philippines (IEMOP) reported a minimal increase in Wholesale Electricity Spot Market (WESM) prices in November. IEMOP data showed a two percent decrease in both average supply and demand. Supply dropped from 19,897 megawatts (MW) to 19,492 MW,...
The Independent Electricity Market Operator of the Philippines (IEMOP) reported an increase in the average electricity prices in October due to a slight hike in demand. During a media briefing on Tuesday, Nov. 5, the IEMOP noted that last month saw a significant increase in the Wholesale...
There’s still no way out for many consumers on upturn in their electric bills, as the pass-on tariff of power utility giant Manila Electric Company (Meralco) will slightly go up by P0.0327 per kilowatt hour (kWh) in this August billing cycle. Following that upward adjustment, the overall rate to...
The substantial delay in the regulatory approval of power supply agreements (PSAs) was among the factors blamed in the never-ending high electricity rates burden of the Filipino consumers – and that had been particularly manifest in this year’s summer months because many power utilities were...
Prior to trading resumption in the reserve market, the Department of Energy (DOE) has instructed the operator of the Wholesale Electricity Spot Market (WESM) to issue guidelines on the synchronization of dispatch intervals for both traded energy capacities and ancillary services for an efficient...
It isn’t a rosy year for Consunji-led Semirara Mining and Power Corporation (SMPC), as its first half income suffered 34 percent downswing to P12.6 billion from a record P19.2 billion within the same six-month stretch in 2023 – and that was mainly precipitated by the apparent weakening of coal...
The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) has finally lifted the suspension it earlier imposed on the settlement of traded capacities in the co-optimized reserve market, hence, consumers will have to brace for added cost burden in their forthcoming electric bills. With the lifting of the settlement...
By MYRNA VELASCO The grinding task of ensuring ‘fair and transparent’ trading outcomes in the electricity reserve market has been tossed as a responsibility of the Philippine Electricity Market Corporation (PEMC), which is also the governance body of the Wholesale Electricity Spot...
At least eight companies are eyeing to corner the 600-megawatt capacity that is slated for auction by power utility giant Manila Electric Company (Meralco) to beef up its supply portfolio starting August next year. In a pre-bid conference on Thursday (July 4), the Filipino-owned companies which...
The deferred pass-on of generation charges that was ordered by regulators could reflexively inflate electricity rates to be reflected in the bills this month, hence, the customers of Manila Electric Company (Meralco) are being prompted to brace for highly probable hike in rates that they shall be...
