The Department of Energy (DOE) is counting on the capacity contribution of greenfield solar plants that are coming on commercial stream during the summer months, primarily to plug capacity gap arising from the de-rated generation of the hydro plants due to the incursion of El Niño spell. In a...
Ayala-led ACEN Corporation has firmed up a deal with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI) to raise P11 billion worth of sustainability-linked term loan facility that will partly bankroll the company’s solar projects. The loan, according to ACEN, will carry...
DUBAI, UAE – Players in the renewable energy sector of the Philippines are strategically seeking the help of the Danish government in helping address ‘tightness’ in the workforce for technical as well as managerial skills currently being experienced in the flourishing solar industry. In an...
DUBAI, UAE -- The transformative impact of two solar farm projects of Filipino-led Citicore Renewable Energy Corporation (CREC) had clinched global spotlight as it was catapulted to be among the world’s first bestowed with FAST-Infra Sustainability Infrastructure (FISI) Label, which has been...
Ayala-led ACEN Corporation has inked P20 billion worth of term loan facility that will be used mainly to bankroll ongoing renewable energy (RE) projects as well as for general corporate purposes. According to the company, the debt facility has 10-year repayment term, but the lender-banks have not...
With sustained uptick in its energy sales, the net income of Alsons Consolidated Resources Inc. (ACR) had climbed to P1.8 billion within January to September this 2023, posting 32-percent escalation from a relatively moderate pace of P1.35 billion earnings last year. Given such uptrend in its...
The consolidated net income of Yuchengco-led PetroEnergy Resources Corporation’s (PERC) had climbed 29% to P874 million as of end-September this year as against a leaner P677 million within a comparative period in 2022. For the third quarter alone, the company posted a profit of P282.696 million,...
The financial future of Filipino-led Alternergy Holdings Corporation is treading through favorable prospects as it logged net income upturn to P96.98 million in the initial quarter of fiscal year 2024 versus P1.66 million in the same period last year. In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock...
CEBU CITY – An American was arrested after he was caught keeping potted marijuana plants in his condominium in Barangay Camputhaw here. POTTED marijuana plants are found in a condominium of an American that was raided by agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency-Central Visayas (PDEA-7) in...
The equity sell-down on its Salak and Darajat geothermal power assets in Indonesia had propelled profitability upturn for Ayala-led ACEN Corporation in the first three quarters to P6.6 billion, higher by 59-percent from P4.1 billion in a comparative period last year. In terms of core operating...
Buoyed by the strong financial showing of its power generation business portfolio, the consolidated core net income of power utility giant Manila Electric Company (Meralco) had surged 53-percent to P30.023 billion in this year’s nine-month period versus P19.605 billion within a comparative period...
Yindjibarndi Energy Corporation (YEC), a subsidiary of Ayala-led ACEN Corporation has inked a preliminary deal with London-headquartered Rio Tinto for development collaboration on the latter’s targeted energy usage shift to renewable energy in its Australian mining operations. In a press...
