Senator Sherwin Gatchalian on Friday, June 23 urged the Toll Regulatory Board (TRB) and the North Luzon Expressway (NLEX) management to address the bottlenecks along the expressway. A week since the toll increase in the NLEX took effect, Gatchalian said regular users of the toll road still...
The drastic hike in toll rates beginning June 15 must be explained in detail to the motoring public, Senator Grace Poe on Tuesday, June 13, said. Sen. Grace Poe (Senate PRIB Photo) “If these were periodic adjustments from more than a decade ago, the...
Senate Minority Leader Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III on Tuesday, June 13 urged the Toll Regulatory Board (TRB) and the North Luzon Express (NLEX) Corporation to put on hold the provisional increase in toll rates saying the worsening traffic should be resolved first. This, after the TRB...
A "differentiated pricing" is being proposed on the offshore wind (OSW) technologies that shall be deployed for projects in the country to consider divergent cost calculations on tariffs for the fixed bottom and floating OSW solutions. In a briefing with the media, Pierre-Antoine Tetard, vice...
As rising electric bills and deteriorating services of power utilities often spark frustration and rage, the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) is targeting to debut next month its online platform to fast track resolution of complaints. The online platform will receive and correspondingly process...
Public utility vehicle (PUV) owners have the freedom to choose the insurance provider they prefer and trust, the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) reiterated on Friday, June 2. This, as LTFRB Chairman Teofilo Guadiz III belied recent reports claiming that the Board is...
118 qualified firms eyeing to join 2nd RE auction By Myrna M. Velasco The Department of Energy (DOE) is set to hold its second Green Energy Auction (GEA-2) on June 19 which attracted a remarkable number of potential bidders. A total of 118 qualified companies have expressed interest in bidding for...
The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) has issued show-cause orders (SCOs) to 25 electric cooperatives and three private distribution utilities (DUs), mandating them to explain why they failed to justify pass-through fuel costs that they have reflected in the electricity bills of their customers....
Concessionaire-firm National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) claimed that its overall performance has improved, compared to the time when the transmission system was still operated by the government. In a statement to the media, NGCP said, its “overall performance in operating the grid...
System operator National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) was able to free up stranded capacity in the northern corridor of the Luzon grid, following the energization of its 500-kilovolt (kV) Hermosa-San Jose transmission line project in Bataan. That project, which commanded investment of...
Senators are now seeking a refund of all the charges collected by the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) for its uncompleted transmission projects. Sen. Sherwin Gatchalian made the suggestion noting that the government has been looking for ways to lower the prices of electricity in...
The single settlement system for capacities traded via the Wholesale Electricity Spot Market (WESM) across all grids will kick-off in the May billing cycle, the Department of Energy (DOE) said. In an advisory issued this month, Energy Secretary Raphael P.M. Lotilla stipulated that WESM’s shift...
