HOUSTON - The flourishing innovations for long duration energy storage (LDES) are seen as ‘gridlock breaker’ not just for the perplexing intermittency of variable renewable energy (VRE) facilities, but they could also defray huge capital outlay for warranted grid expansions and upgrades to...
HOUSTON – While acknowledging that ‘energy transition’ is a wildering cycle path to navigate, billionaire and Microsoft founder Bill Gates is staying the course on his ‘mega bet’ that nuclear fusion will eventually define the planet’s energy future. In the recently concluded CERAWeek...
In the Philippines, Holy Week is a time to reflect, get in touch with the Divine, and create meaningful moments with loved ones. Apart from the traditional Visita Iglesia and the Reading of the Passion, what brings families together during that time is food. As avoiding meat products is one of the...
Diversified conglomerate San Miguel Corporation (SMC) is advancing into the phased development of a solar farm that will strategically position the cavernous New Manila International Airport (NMIA) in Bulacan as a carbon-neutral infrastructure – with the kick-off installation targeted to provide...
DUBAI, UAE – Ayala-controlled ACEN Corporation, which has been expanding its investment foothold across foreign markets, is batting for capacity auction that will primarily delve with integrated renewable and energy storage system (IRESS) as prospective replacement for capacities that shall be...
Financially-plagued Phoenix Petroleum Philippines Inc, has widened its net loss within January-September stretch this year to P3.688 billion from a relatively leaner P1.0 billion in the same period in 2022. The company’s net loss before tax, as reported to the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE), was...
Lopez-led First Gen Corporation has awarded its next cargo of liquefied natural gas (LNG) delivery to multinational fuel trading firm Trafigura Pte Ltd. Based on the awarded contract, Trafigura will have to supply one cargo LNG with a volume of roughly 154,500 cubic meters (m3) – which will be...
The P15.9 billion investment to be injected by a subsidiary-company of Manila Electric Company (Meralco) into the Leviste-founded SP New Energy Corporation (SPNEC) will help ramp up the development of the latter’s pipelined solar-plus-energy storage projects. The utility firm announced that MGen...
This early, the Department of Energy (DOE) is keeping consumers up to speed that the country’s transition to renewable energy (RE) will not only be a long journey, but there’s also high probability that it will add up costs into the electric bills of consumers. “Nobody is going to tell you...
The government has more than P37.1 million worth of relief goods which have remained undistributed and exposed to loss, wastage or misappropriation, the Commission on Audit (COA) said. In its 2022 audit on the Disaster Risk Reduction Management (DRRM), COA said that storage and timely distribution...
Czark Mak Corporation (CZM) Group of Companies is further expanding its cold storage business with P350-million state-of-the-art cold storage facility and ice plant in Murcia, Negros Occidental to serve the needs of agricultural and other producers in the province and nearby areas. In a statement,...
Cost downtrend to spur rollout of hydrogen as energy fuel By MYRNA M. VELASCO THE HAGUE – Significant cost downtrend and further improvements in technological innovation are warranted before hydrogen could gain headway for commercial rollout into markets, according to multinational energy giant...