The House of Committee on Transportation will continue its briefing on the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) New Year's day crisis on Wednesday morning, Jan. 18. (MANILA BULLETIN) This was confirmed on Monday, Jan. 16 by the office of Antipolo City 2nd district Rep. Romeo Acop. Acop chairs...
In a media briefing last week, Department of Energy (DOE) Undersecretary Rowena Cristina Guevara said that the Luzon grid could be distressed with 12 incidents of yellow alerts for eight months this year, a condition in the power system entailing insufficiency of power reserves. This forecast is...
Integrating renewable energy production in farming provides several benefits for farmers and the environment. Installing solar panels in fields enables farmers to harvest solar energy alongside their crops. Agrivoltaic farming, the practice of growing crops underneath solar panels, is already...
ASILO de Molo, which caters to the elderly, is one of the beneficiaries of MORE Electric and Power Corp. in Iloilo City. (MORE Power) ILOILO CITY – Since taking over as the sole power distributor here in 2020, MORE Electric and Power Corp. (MORE Power) continues to extend financial assistance to...
The Committee on Transportation in the House of Representatives will conduct an briefing on the disastrous New Year power outage at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) next week. The scene at NAIA on Monday, Jan. 2, 2023, or a day after the power outage that affected over 300 flights....
If the disastrous New Year flight cancellations at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) showed anything, it's that the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) had been wearing too many hats. The scene at NAIA on Monday, Jan. 2, 2023, or a day after the power outage that affected...
Solar Philippines is preparing for the conversion of over 3,000 hectares in Nueva Ecija and Bulacan into industrial land this year after securing off-take agreements for its projects in 2022. In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange, SP New Energy Corporation (SPNEC) said it has already...
The unmitigated disaster that was the New Year's flight cancellations at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) has one congressman worrying about whether or not the affected overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) would get fired by their foreign employers. A standard passenger at NAIA awaits news...
Albay 2nd district Rep. Joey Salceda said that the people who messed up and caused the disastrous technical glitch at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) over the weekend ought to be held accountable. Stranded passengers at the NAIA on Jan. 2, 2023 (Noel Pabalate/ MANILA BULLETIN) “I...
CALAPAN CITY, Oriental Mindoro – A looming power shutdown in Occidental Mindoro scheduled at the start of the year was averted after the National Electrification Administration (NEA) promised to intervene for the immediate release of a government subsidy to a disgruntled power provider in the...
The Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) has recorded a decline in the incidents of fire from Dec. 24, 2022 to Jan. 1 this year. The figure is 44 percent lower compared to the same Dec. 24, 2021 to Jan. 1 2022 period, according to BFP spokesperson Supt. Analee Atienza. A total of 89 fire incidents were...
The Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP) granted a P254-million loan to renewable energy firm Upgrade Energy Philippines, Inc. (UEP) to spur investments in the sector amidst rising demand. UEP, an engineering, procurement and construction contractor, offers renewable energy and energy...
