The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) has issued rules that will tighten performance and reliability standards for variable renewable energy (VRE) facilities, primarily for wind and solar farm installations. In a resolution issued by the regulatory body, it specified that the rules “shall apply...
Power utility giant Manila Electric Company (Meralco) is seeking more generation companies (GenCos) to join in its 170-megawatt emergency power supply procurement next month. The targeted five-month capacity purchase will be carried out through a competitive selection process (CSP) with submission...
Looking through the lens of scientific literature, energy infrastructure facilities are seen most vulnerable with the impacts of death-dealing disasters – and this is a gospel truth that even climate change skeptics cannot rebuff. From extreme human stress and suffering to the canary of economic...
The recent approval granted by the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) on the license for the commercial operations of the 724.965-megawatt GNPower Dinginin (GNPD) thermal generating plant will put power supply on a safer zone during the May 2022 elections as well as for the demand peak on the...
Power utility giant Manila Electric Company (Meralco) is seeking regulatory approval on capital spending for the "emergency replacement" of a defective transformer at its Urdaneta substation to prevent blackouts at the commercial business districts (CBDs) of Makati and Taguig. In its regulatory...
WESM system enhancements eyed By MYRNA M. VELASCO The country’s Wholesale Electricity Spot Market (WESM) will be undertaking enhancements on its new market management system (NMMS) so it can accommodate the registration of more participants that will be joining the lowering of threshold of the...
Filipino consumers may be greeted with bad news in the New Year as spot prices of electricity have been inching higher this month, December, due to continued forced outages of power plants. As of December 21, the operator of the Wholesale Electricity Spot Market (WESM) has apprised media that...
The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) has ordered at least two-month leeway on the electric bill payments of consumers in the typhoon-affected areas in Visayas and Mindanao. This order came alongside its call for speedy restoration of electricity services in the affected areas. The power industry...
The Department of Energy (DOE) will craft separate “remuneration packages” on hydropower and geothermal technologies in the targeted auction of renewable energy (RE) capacities for compliance of mandated participants to the Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS) policy. A revised DOE circular said...
Malacañang is looking to implement changes in its electrification game plan in a bid to achieve 100 percent electrification of the country by 2022--the last year of the Duterte administration. (Kai Gradert/ Unsplash) President Duterte signed Executive Order (EO) No.156 on Friday, Dec. 10 in order...
The financial affliction of the coronavirus pandemic, which triggered backlog in feed-in-tariff (FIT) payments to qualified renewable energy (RE) developers, is also seen to delay the reduction in subsidy costs for these clean energy technologies. According to Atty. Melvin Matibag, president of the...
The Philippine Electricity Market Corporation (PEMC), which is the governing entity of the Wholesale Electricity Spot Market (WESM), has inked a deal with the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS), for the relevant parties to concretize energy transition roadmap that will primarily be...
