Senator Risa Hontiveros on Wednesday, May 10 called on energy officials to step up and proactively address the widespread power outages looming over the country, lamenting how the Department of Energy (DOE) and the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) seems to be tarrying in...
Amid distress from scorching weather temperature, massive number of consumers in Luzon had to live through the agony of rotational blackouts of at least two-hour duration due to strained power supply in the grid following a transmission line tripping that was compounded by the forced outages and...
Owing to the extreme tightness of supply, power utility giant Manila Electric Company (Meralco) announced that it has implemented rotational blackouts of two-hour duration, initially affecting parts of Cavite and Laguna, as well as key cities in Metro Manila, including Marikina, Novaliches,...
Amid the country’s power crisis, President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. is eyeing “cutting-edge” micro nuclear fuel technology developed by a United States-based firm that brings safe, clean, and cost-effective electricity to consumers. Meeting of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. with...
Rowena Guanzon P3PWD Party-list nominee Rowena Guanzon is calling on the government to do something--anything--to address the 20-hour blackouts besetting Occidental Mindoro. For Guanzon, it's the schoolchildren's welfare that's at stake, since the outages are occurring in the middle of summer. "20...
(Unsplash) The Energy Regulatory Commission's (ERC) supposed inaction on the needs of the National Power Corporation (Napocor) has resulted to the 20-hour power outages besetting Occidental Mindoro every day. This was the claim Sunday, April 23 of Romblon lone district Rep. Eleandro Jesus Madrona,...
SAN FRANCISCO, United States -- Twitter users around the world reported errors accessing it for several hours, web monitors said Wednesday, in one of the biggest outages since Elon Musk bought the platform. Twitter has been riven by chaos since the controversial billionaire completed his $44...
The Pasay City government said the Manila Electric Company (Meralco) will implement power service interruption along Taft Avenue on Nov.23. In its Facebook page, the Pasay Public Information Office (PIO) said Meralco’s scheduled power disruption will be from 11:00 p.m. on Nov. 23 up to 4:00 a.m....
A lingering disconnect between the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) and the National Power Corporation (Napocor) over the latter’s 2023 budget allocation could lead to very unsavory consequences for Filipinos. (Amie Johnson/ Unsplash) Senior Deputy Minority Leader and Northern Samar 1st...
Senator Rafael ‘’Raffy’’ Tulfo has warned that the persistent power outages in different provinces continue to threaten the country’s national security. Tulfo, chairman of the Senate Energy Committee, said that the government’s failure to properly address the recurring long periods of...
Senator Raffy Tulfo said Wednesday, Aug. 3 that he would hold responsible the politician-capitalists of power-generating plants for frequent brownouts in the provinces. Tulfo issued the statement after baring his plans to prioritize energy-related measures that would lessen the burden on Filipino...
Senator Sherwin Gatchalian has proposed solutions to the daily intermittent power outage in Occidental Mindoro as the power crisis has affected hospital operations amid a dengue outbreak as well as rising Covid-19 cases. One solution, according to Gatchalian, is for the National Power Corporation...
