European firm Mainstream Renewable Power (Mainstream) has signed service contracts with the Department of Energy (DOE) for two greenfield onshore wind power projects to be developed separately at demarcated sites in Luzon and Visayas grids. The service contracts were secured by Mainstream on 100%...
The Department of Energy (DOE) will be offering 8,200 megawatts of renewable energy (RE) capacities in the fourth round of green energy auction (GEA-4) to be administered by the latter part of this year. In her remarks during an Energy Transition forum convened by Climate Smart Ventures (CSV),...
An Executive Order (EO) mandating state-run National Transmission Corporation (TransCo) to build transmission facilities to underpin the wheeling of generated capacities from renewable energy (RE) facilities will be issued soon by President Marcos. In an exclusive interview on the sidelines of the...
President Marcos has approved 23 new infrastructure flagship projects (IFPs), including the Davao City Bypass. President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. and NEDA Secretary Arsenio Balisacan (Photo courtesy of Bongbong Marcos) "We've approved 23 new IFPs, including the Davao City Bypass...
The Marcos administration’s economic team removed 36 infrastructure flagship projects (IFPs) but added 23 new projects under the Build Better More program, the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) said. The NEDA board, chaired by President Marcos, has reduced the number of IFPs from...
ILOILO CITY – The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) recently opened agro-forestry facilities worth P109 million in central Iloilo province. A MOUNTAIN community in Calinog town, Iloilo province is one of the recipients of the P109-million agro-forestry projects funded by the Japan...
After working on a moving target for years, power utility giant Manila Electric Company (Meralco) has finally cemented its sustainability-linked investments to P100 billion – with capital infusion fundamentally targeted for the company’s smart grid journey as well as renewable energy (RE)...
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) will be reviewing environmental compliance certificates (ECCs) that have been issued to offshore wind (OSW) project-developers prior to enforcement of the interim guidelines governing the development of these renewable energy (RE)...
The interest of foreign investors in the country’s renewable energy (RE) sector is still at its wobbly pace, hence, the Department of Energy (DOE) is sorting out strategies to whet their appetite for fresh wave of capital infusion – and one game plan it is pursuing will be business-to-business...
Power utility giant Manila Electric Company (Meralco) will be infusing fresh capital outlay of P280 million for the development of a switching station that will support electricity services for the multi-billion Metro Manila subway project. The 115-kilovolt (kV) switching station that shall be...
The Department of Energy (DOE) will be undertaking this year the first bid round to woo prospective investors for energy infrastructure developments in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM). The department announced that the launch of the planned auction for conventional...
Senator Risa Hontiveros on Monday, February 5, said she doubts that introducing a third party supposedly to help accelerate the completion of delayed transmission projects of the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) would be effective in addressing the country’s concerns in the...
