With additional revenues to be drawn from geothermal assets that are coming on commercial stream, Lopez-led First Gen Corporation is expecting overall profit boost this year, according to a top executive of the company. First President and COO Francis Giles B. Puno indicated that at least 83...
The regulator-approved pass on of the deferred charges of First Gen Corporation on its gas use for power generation and capital recovery on liquefied natural gas (LNG) import facility investment will hike Meralco rates by P0.32 to P0.33 per kilowatt hour (kWh) starting in its October billing to...
The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) is scheduling next week the deliberations on the deferred cost recoveries of liquefied natural gas (LNG) that First Gen Corporation had utilized for electricity generation at its gas-fed power plants in Batangas. As full pass-on of LNG costs had not been...
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...
With high anticipation that electric bills will drastically spike during the summer months, the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) sounded off this early that it will prod the private distribution utilities (DUs) and electric cooperatives (ECs) on staggered billing on the resulting radical rate...
Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque is certain that Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) stalwarts will comprise most of the members of the Bangsamoro Transition Authority (BTA) who will be designated by Malacañang. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque (Photo from Harry Roque's Facebook) Roque...
