While the Luzon and Visayas grids are enjoying a rare respite from their usual summer 'red ' and 'yellow ' alert spasms, Europe was hit hard by the massive Spain-Portugal blackouts on April 28 – a stark reminder that even giant energy markets can go dark when the grid...
The Department of Energy (DOE) has snubbed hydrogen as a form of innovative energy storage that the entire Philippine power supply chain can prospectively lean on for efficient and reliable operations into the future and despite the fact that this storage technology is already the center of...
Zamora-led Emerging Power Inc. (EPI), the renewable energy subsidiary of Nickel Asia Corporation, has inked a joint venture agreement with Shell Overseas Investments B.V. for the targeted developments of up to 3,000 megawatts of renewable energy (RE) installations in the Philippines, primarily in...
With anticipated robust uptake from renewable energy (RE) developers, US-headquartered Amber Kinetics will double its production of kinetic energy storage systems (KESS) or “flywheels” by the end of the year at the completion of its manufacturing facility expansion in Santo Tomas, Batangas. In...
Ayala-led energy firm ACEN Corporation has switched on its 40-megawatt Alaminos hybrid energy storage facility in Laguna, positioned as a support technology for its solar-generated power capacity that will be delivered to off-takers. The facility is touted as the first hybrid solar and energy...
Power utility giant Manila Electric Company (Meralco) and US-founded Amber Kinetics is trailblazing the deployment of long-duration flywheel energy storage system (FESS) to help reinforce the efficiency and reliability of Meralco’s power distribution network, even with targeted high scale...
To ensure energy security and its sustainability, the Philippines is making headway in advancing the technology of energy storage to abate the intermittency of variable renewable energy (VRE) sources. Battery energy storage system (BESS) is now produced locally at a manufacturing facility in...
