BACOLOD CITY – A 34-year-old lineman plunged to his death while working on an electric post in Barangay Villamonte here amid inclement weather due to the southwest monsoon or “habagat” enhanced by tropical cyclones on Sunday, September 15. A 34-year-old Negros Power lineman, Jessie James...
Consunji-led Semirara Mining and Power Corporation (SMPC) is eyeing Japan as additional export market for beefed up coal output from its Semirara mine in Antique province. SMPC President and Chief Operating Officer Maria Cristina C. Gotianun told reporters that the company had already done trial...
The Department of Energy (DOE) is still undecided if it will grant the application for certification that will greenlight the planned 1,200-megawatt Atimonan coal-fired power project of Meralco PowerGen Corporation (MGen), the power investment arm of utility giant Manila Electric Company. When...
Consunji-led Semirara Mining and Power Corporation (SMPC) is eyeing to take a provocative step as the third company breaking into the regenerated coal plant development gamble, with the targeted revival of its 700-megawatt Saint Raphael power project in Batangas that will likely command an...
A young executive of Aboitiz Power Corporation has spilled the inconvenient truth that renewable energy (RE) developers have been distorting the ‘cheap electricity narrative’ because of their proclivity to downplay other cost components linked to the variability of their technologies –...
The exclusion of off-grid areas from the coal moratorium is being sought so the lingering woes of consumers over power service interruptions as well as exorbitant rates can be resolved, according to an industry player that has been providing electricity services to these sites. DMCI Holdings...
Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) Monalisa C. Dimalanta will temporarily leave her office as chief regulator of the deregulated power industry to comply with the six-month suspension meted out by the Office of the Ombudsman. In a statement to the media, Dimalanta indicated that she will...
Telecommunications giant PLDT Inc. and its wireless subsidiary Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart) have expanded renewable energy (RE) capacity sourcing from Lopez-led First Gen Corporation to power additional six of their network facilities. According to First Gen, a major PLDT facility that will...
The procurement of replacement power under the Green Energy Option Program (GEOP) will be allowed at 50 percent renewable energy (RE) capacity during the three-year transition period that shall be enforced in the amended policy for this segment of the power industry. In a draft Circular furnished...
The six-month suspension meted by the Office of the Ombudsman against the chairperson of the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) is seen delaying the approvals of pending power supply agreements (PSAs) as well as the reserve price-setting for the auction of renewable energy (RE) capacities that are...
ILOILO CITY — An additional 1,500 fish fingerlings were released recently in the Iloilo River by MORE Electric and Power Corp. (MORE Power). THE release of sea bass fingerlings in the Iloilo River was part of the corporate social responsibility program of MORE Power in Iloilo City....
Pangilinan-led Manila Electric Company is gaining a firmer control over SP New Energy Corporation (SPNEC) by raising its interest to 50.5 percent with the acquisition of an additional stake worth P7.5 billion from its founder Leandro Leviste. Meralco PowerGen Corporation (MGen) is buying another...
