Cebu-based Top Line Business Development Corp. (Topline) is pursuing robust expansion on its core business in the fuel industry, primarily to meet the growing needs of retail as well as commercial end-users in its main market in the Visayas. According to Topline Chairman Erik Lim, who is also the...
System operator National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) is batting for regulatory approval on full cost recovery of its P20.94 billion investment in the newly reinforced 500-kilovolt Hermosa-San Jose transmission line, which is now supporting the wheeling of additional capacities in...
The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) on Sunday, May 19, said the shear line may continue to affect extreme northern Luzon, while easterlies may prevail over the rest of the country. Batanes and Babuyan Islands will have cloudy skies, scattered...
The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) on Saturday, May 18, said that some parts of Luzon may experience cloudy skies with scattered rain showers and thunderstorms due to the shear line, which is the convergence of warm and cold air. Photo credit...
The shear line, a weather system formed by the collision of cold and warm air, may bring rains over the eastern section of northern Luzon, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) said on Wednesday, May 15. PAGASA said cloudy skies, scattered rain...
Probabilities of rotational brownouts could wreck some parts in the Visayas, as system operator National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) raised alarm on the critical state of overloading at the 69-kilovolt (kV) Amlan-Siaton transmission line in the grid. Prompted by that dilemma, NGCP...
Wheeling of generated capacities from power plants sited in the southern part of Luzon could be impeded if delays in the 500-kilovolt (kV) Tuy-Dasmarinas transmission line project of the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) could not be avoided due to pending legal hurdles, primarily...
The Philippine Navy test-fires a non-line-of-sight (NLOS) missile system installed on one of its fast attack interdiction craft (FAIC) platforms at west off Luzon Point in Mariverles, Bataan on April 10, 2024. The Philippine Navy (PN) has put to test its new long-range missile system, installed on...
The Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB) has banned the documentary “Chasing Tuna in the Ocean” from domestic exhibition. This, for a scene that depicts the nine-dash line, one of many names for a controversial Chinese maritime claim that encroaches on the exclusive...
The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) on Wednesday, March 13 said certain areas of the country may experience rain showers as a result of three prevailing weather systems—shear line, northeast monsoon, and the easterlies. (Photo credit to MB...
Despite the low probability of tropical cyclone formation, the weather this weekend could be influenced by the northeast monsoon, locally known as "amihan,” which could bring light rains to parts of Luzon, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA)...
The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) on Tuesday, Feb. 13 said three weather systems—the northeast monsoon, shear line, and easterlies—remain the dominant weather systems, which may bring rain showers to some parts of the country....
