BACOLOD CITY – Sugar Regulatory Administration Administrator Pablo Luis "Paul" Azcona visited the Victorias Milling Company (VMC) in Barangay 17, Victorias City, Negros Occidental, a day after its raw sugar warehouse was razed by a fire on Sunday night, August 27. SUGAR Regulatory Administration...
Power utility giant Manila Electric Company (Meralco) is leading the race on compliance to the Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS) with 1,880 megawatts of contracted renewable energy (RE) already secured in its supply portfolio. The power firm indicated that it was able to surpass its initial...
Some portions of Rodriguez and Cainta, both in Rizal Province, will experience water service interruption for six to eight hours until Friday, Aug. 18, due to the scheduled repair and maintenance works by Manila Water. The east zone water concessionaire said there will be seven hours of...
After terminating its 330-megawatt fixed priced power supply agreement (PSA) due to the recently rendered verdict of the Court of Appeals, a subsidiary of SMC Global Power Holdings Corp. has offered a replacement power supply deal to power utility giant Manila Electric Company (Meralco). Meralco...
FPM Power Holdings (Singapore) Ltd., an affiliate of Manila Electric Company (Meralco), will be joining the tender being carried out by the Singaporean government for its planned capacity shoring up to meet future energy demand growth. According to Meralco Chairman and CEO Manuel V. Pangilinan, the...
We could see a very different Santa Fe soon, and based on these initial photos, it’s a very radical departure from its predecessor. This Santa Fe, now the fifth-generation, boasts of a new nature-meets-city style. The midsize SUV’s new look was shaped by big data around the latest outdoor...
When we talk about the local luxury furniture scene, it is hard not to think of Kenneth Cobonpue. With his keen eye for detail, passion for design, and knack for all the beautiful things that make Filipino culture ever so vibrant, the Cebuano industrial and furniture designer was able to make a...
San Miguel Global Power Holdings (SMGP), the electricity generating subsidiary of conglomerate San Miguel Corporation (SMC), has bewailed the higher electricity rates that consumers are now paying after the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) denied its tariff adjustment application last year. “It...
More than seven million customers of power utility giant Manila Electric Company (Meralco) will feel relief in their pockets this month, as the tariffs pass-on of the company is highly anticipated to go down in the July billing cycle. According to Meralco Vice President and Head of Corporate...
A tripartite collaborative approach has been reached by the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC), power utility giant Manila Electric Company (Meralco) and the city government of Pasig to promote the use of renewable energy (RE) in the host-locality. In a statement to the media, the ERC said that an...
Following a Supreme Court ruling affirming the rights of electricity consumers on unwarranted service disconnections, the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) stipulated that it will pay attention to the tenets of that verdict on its planned review of the Magna Carta for Residential Electricity...
Senator Sherwin Gatchalian on Sunday, June 25 urged the public to be wary of finance applications that can be downloaded online on Google Play or Apple Store and other websites but are actually lending applications that victimizes oblivious customers. ...
