The Department of Energy (DOE) has directed all distribution utilities (DUs) to contract sufficient power capacity to ensure successful rollout of Covid-19 vaccines in various parts of the country this year. In an official advisory issued by the energy department this week, power distribution...
The Department of Energy (DOE) is giving its word that brownouts will not hamstring the anticipated COVID-19 vaccine rollouts in the coming months, so the country can finally sneak away from the reins of the pandemic. According to Energy Undersecretary Felix William B. Fuentebella, the department...
Existing generating facilities with definitive expansion plans will be excluded from the coverage of the coal moratorium policy that was finally firmed up by the Department of Energy (DOE) in an advisory that it issued this week. Aside from expansion projects, exempted from the prohibited coal...
A ‘residual cash pool’ of P370 million from the extinct Oil Price Stabilization Fund (OPSF) have been remitted recently by the Department of Energy (DOE) to the national government so it can add up to the state’s budget for the coronavirus pandemic response....
The Department of Energy (DOE) will be sorting out a policy to mark off power generation plants that shall already be retired in the country, so provision of electricity to consumers could be improved. Energy Secretary Alfonso G. Cusi explained that the government will not just be looking at the...
“Power rate reduction” tops the 2021 to-do list of the Department of Energy (DOE) to improve the attractiveness of the Philippines as an investment destination for manufacturers, who have been discouraged by the prohibitive power cost in the country. Energy Secretary Alfonso G. Cusi told...
State-run subsidiary Philippine National Oil Company-Renewables Corporation (PNOC-RC) is not winding down operations and is not ceasing corporate existence, according to Energy Secretary Alfonso G. Cusi. That was his pronouncement despite earlier calls of some lawmakers for the government-owned...
The Department of Energy (DOE) has suspended its issuances of certificate of energy projects of national significance (CEPNS) blaming the very slow pace in securing permits and project implementations. The CEPNS was mandated under Executive Order No. 30 that was issued by President Duterte in 2017....
Year-ender Today, I give you pain. Tomorrow, who knows? For industry players in the energy sector, that’s their tale of woe this year given decimated top and bottom lines with demand crash on energy commodities. Onward, uncertainties hold sway. At the height of the lockdown period in March-May,...
The Department of Energy (DOE) has green-lighted ‘indefinite extension’ on the award of feed-in-tariff (FIT) incentives for run-of-river (ROR) hydropower projects that will be pursued by renewable energy (RE) developers. Energy Secretary Alfonso G. Cusi In an advisory issued by Energy Secretary...
The blueprinted expansion projects in coal-fired power installations are being mulled to be excluded from the coal moratorium declaration of the Department of Energy, according to Director Mario C. Marasigan of the agency’s Electric Power Industry Management Bureau....
Despite a less-than-ideal Christmas and New Year celebrations this year, the Department of Energy (DOE) is trying to compensate that with assurance that the holiday break will not be messed up with power service interruptions. Energy Secretary Alfonso G. Cusi (Photo credit: https://www.doe.gov.ph)...
