Every kilowatt saved cuts costly power capacity additions and puts money back into consumers’ pockets – that’s the “hidden power” of energy efficiency. However, in the broader energy security puzzle, that is often overlooked despite the formidable force it holds on easing grid stress and...
While not exactly turning its back on fossil fuel-based conventional technologies, Alcantara-led Alsons Power Group will be pursuing wider diversification on its power generation portfolio by focusing its next investment on utility scale solar farm installation that will have energy storage...
The Department of Energy (DOE) is anticipating capacity injection of additional 1,300 megawatts of coal capacities in the next few years before renewable energy (RE) could overtake that traditionally-dominant fossil fuel technology in the energy mix by 2028. Energy Undersecretary Rowena Cristina...
A new face of leadership will soon unfold at Aboitiz Power Corporation, as fifth generation scion Danel C. Aboitiz will be ascending to the top post immediately after the retirement of Emmanuel ”Manny” V. Rubio as President and CEO by June 30 this year. An announcement of the company via...
TORONTO – Players in the nuclear industry in Canada are ready to export their technologies as well as technical capabilities to the Philippines once the country decides firmly on the resurgence of its nuclear power ambitions. Ontario Energy Minister Todd Smith conveyed to a recent delegation from...
Philippine officials and key industry players will be on a one-week Nuclear Energy Mission to Canada this March to scrutinize the policy frameworks and regulatory regimes of this developed market - primarily on how it had set the bar high on its ‘cradle-to-grave’ precept of nuclear energy...
The Department of Energy (DOE) is eyeing to tap technical assistance from either the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) or the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) for targeted new survey on ‘social acceptance’ for nuclear power as an option in the Philippine...
LONDON, England – There are only 5-6 sites that are currently viable to host nuclear power projects based on initial assessments done by various relevant government agencies, according to Energy Undersecretary Sharon S. Garin. She noted in an interview here that of the 11 sites previously...
The Department of Energy (DOE) is planning to re-calibrate the country’s power mix by opting to retire coal-fired power facilities at the scale of 5,000 megawatts in the medium term. According to Michael Sinocruz, director of the DOE’s Energy Policy and Planning Bureau, that has been one of the...
Listed firm Aboitiz Power Corporation plans to kick off study next year on co-firing ammonia with coal-fed power plants, as a way to pare the carbon intensity of these environment-assaulting power generating assets. “We’re looking at having that [feasibility] study perhaps starting next year....
STA. CRUZ, Laguna - Whether it is to reactivate or totally abandon the mothballed Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP), such a decision would be prioritized by PROMDI Party standard-bearer Senator Manny Pacquiao if and when he becomes the country’s next president. Senator Manny Pacquiao at Sampaloc...
Despite the dominance of coal plants in the country’s energy mix, Energy Secretary Alfonso G. Cusi forthrightly stated that the Philippines is not ready for ‘carbon tax enforcement’ because such policy could worsen the travails of consumers on high cost of power that they are already...
