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)...
Amid controversies stirred up by the transaction, the Department of Energy (DOE) indicated that it had not seen ‘violation’ in the sale and purchase agreement (SPA) sealed by American firm Chevron Corporation and Udenna Corporation in the 45-percent stake of Malampaya that was unloaded by the...
The Department of Energy (DOE) has suspended the issuance of “certificates of energy projects of national significance” (CEPNS) to various projects being proposed by industry players....
The Department of Energy (DOE) is stepping up on the conduct of a feasibility study that will line up hydrogen as “fuel of the future” for the Philippines. Energy Secretary Alfonso G. Cusi “I have recently formed a team to study its potential for the local industry given that hydrogen is seen...
Post pandemic energy planning Post Covid-19 pandemic and beyond the stretch of the Duterte administration, the power development planning of the Department of Energy (DOE) had cast an average 7.5-percent gross domestic product (GDP) growth as base scenario in the country’s energy needs for the...
Fr. Alfonso A. Araceli SVD One of the most iconic images attached to the Christmas season is the Santa Claus. A child’s mind is fascinated with a big bearded man wearing a glowing red attire and carrying on his back a sack filled with various gifts. Tradition puts it that every good child...
To ensure that even people who are slow to understand and unwilling to listen will clearly hear it, Energy Secretary Alfonso G. Cusi twice stipulated that the Philippines “cannot really get rid of coal” even on its future energy mix onward to 2040. In an updated Philippine Energy Plan (PEP)...
