Senators on Wednesday, April 24 urged the Department of Energy (DOE) and the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) to rein in and enforce stricter oversight on power generation companies (gencos) to ensure compliance with their scheduled outages. Sen. Francis “Chiz” Escudero said...
While Filipinos are being crippled by the stifling heat of summer, parts of Luzon grid descended into unwanted brownouts or services interruptions due to the prolonged forced outages of power plants and aggravated by the tripping of one major transmission line on Tuesday. In the franchise area of...
Senator Risa Hontiveros on Tuesday, April 23 urged the Department of Energy (DOE) to deliver a lastong solution to the recurrent power outages hitting the country during summer season. Hontiveros made the call as electricity demand increased during the summer months and forced the National Grid...
TGIF is not something that electricity consumers in the Luzon grid can happily look forward to, as they will have to close the week agonizing over new threats of rotational blackouts with Luzon grid being placed on ‘red alert’ for the third time this week. On Friday morning, system operator...
Power supply in the Luzon system is still at its ‘fragile state’, prompting system operator National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) to declare fresh wave of ‘yellow alert’ condition in the grid on Wednesday (April 17) as 18 electric generating units are still on forced outages....
The sudden forced outages at the units 1 and 2 generating units of the Kalayan hydropower plant in Laguna past 4:00pm on Tuesday served as the final trigger to the rotational brownouts that had been scheduled in some provinces in the Luzon grid. By 4:15pm, system operator National Grid Corporation...
By peak demand hours of 2:00 to 4:00pm and at prime time hours of 6:00 to 9:00pm this Wednesday, consumers in the Luzon grid are feared to be teetering into rotational brownouts or a state of red alert because of close to 20 power generating units suffering forced outages. A red alert, in...
The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) is not inclined on removing the caps for the number of days allowed for maintenance shutdowns and even for the ‘forced outages’ of power plants across technologies. As sounded off by ERC Chairperson Monalisa C. Dimalanta, “it’s impossible to remove the...
The government is eyeing possible sanctions against the National Grid Corp. of the Philippines (NGCP) and several power plant operators over the massive power blackouts in Western Visayas that affected schools, businesses, and livelihoods, the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) said. ...
Basilan lone district Rep. Mujiv Hataman Citing the "huge economic losses" being suffered by his province, Basilan lone district Rep. Mujiv Hataman is seeking a House inquiry on what he described as the "frequent and incessant” power outages or brownouts there. Filed by Hataman was House...
The Senate energy committee on Wednesday, May 17, scrutinized the plans of the Department of Energy (DOE) and other power stakeholders to provide long-term solutions to power supply shortages Presiding as chairman of the Senate Committee on Energy hearing on the recent power outages in the country,...
Senator Sherwin Gatchalian said the Senate should conduct an inquiry into the series of disturbances in the country’s power transmission system saying it is imperative to ensure the Philippines has a reliable and continuous supply of electricity. Gatchalian, vice chairman of the Senate Committee...
