On top of the double whammy of rotational brownouts and scorching heat, consumers of Manila Electric Company (Meralco) will be distressed with additional financial burden as its rates will go up by P0.1761 per kilowatt hour (kWh) in this May billing. For roughly 70-percent of the utility firm’s...
Amid distress from scorching weather temperature, massive number of consumers in Luzon had to live through the agony of rotational blackouts of at least two-hour duration due to strained power supply in the grid following a transmission line tripping that was compounded by the forced outages and...
THE PIANIST'S PIANIST Cecile Licad Performance photos by Jojo Mamangun At some point during the one-night-only American Ballet Theater (ABT) Studio Company “Rising Stars” performance in Manila, at the Samsung Performing Arts Theater at Circuit Makati, I was unsure whether to focus on Cecile...
The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) has been discussing with the Independent Electricity Market Operator of the Philippines (IEMOP) the proposed measures for the pass-on of P22.64 billion worth of deferred charges which accumulated in 2013 following strained supply in the Luzon grid due to...
Look Ma, No Cables! San Pedro Street corner Pelayo Street after the underground cabling project was completed. Jesse Pizarro Boga, born and raised in Davao City, is a firsthand witness of pre- and post-underground cabling in the King City of the South. "Underground cabling brings a feeling of...
Customers of Manila Electric Company (Meralco) can temporarily heave a sigh of relief because their electric bills this month will have a reduction of P0.1180 per kilowatt hour (kWh). As announced by Meralco, the rate decline resulted in an all-inclusive tariff of P11.3168 per kWh to be reflected...
The author at the Hyundai Motor Studio in Goyang. Calling it a theme park may be a stretch, but it is as close to one as Hyundai fans will ever get. Here you can see its latest and most advanced models and realize how far it has come to become a premier automaker with legit bragging rights...
Power utility giant Manila Electric Company (Meralco) has secured additional 56 megawatt capacity commitments from Ayala Property Management Corporation (APMC), which will be utilizing its own generating assets for its power needs when necessary. In a statement to the media, Meralco said it has...
Power utility giant Manila Electric Company (Meralco) divulged that it received new offers for one-year contract to cover 670 megawatts of capacity that will replace the cheaper fixed price contract of the Ilijan gas-fired power plant of South Premiere Power Corporation (SPPC) of the San Miguel...
The energy subsidiaries of diversified conglomerate San Miguel Corporation (SMC) have terminated two power supply agreements (PSAs) with utility giant Manila Electric Company (Meralco), crashing hopes of at least 1,800 megawatts in critical power capacity additions by next year until 2025. In an...
Retrofitting existing gas-fired power plants to hydrogen, which is also a business model eyed by several energy firms in the Philippines for their mid-century net zero targets, could take five to seven years, according to an expert from a Japanese global engineering firm. Takakazu Morimoto,...
Manila Water Company reported that its social flagship program Tubig Para sa Barangay (TPSB) continues to provide service improvements to 1.8 million Filipinos in urban poor communities in the East Zone of Metro Manila. In a statement, the firm said the program, which aims to provide sustainable...
