By peak demand hours of 2:00 to 4:00pm and at prime time hours of 6:00 to 9:00pm this Wednesday, consumers in the Luzon grid are feared to be teetering into rotational brownouts or a state of red alert because of close to 20 power generating units suffering forced outages. A red alert, in...
Following the recent interconnection deal for the Alabat wind project, Alternergy Holdings Corp. (Alternergy) signed a new deal with the National Grid Corporation (NGCP) for the Tanay Wind Power Project in Rizal. Alternergy’s subsidiary, the Alternergy Tanay Wind Corpo. (ATWC), and the NGCP...
Senator Lito Lapid has reiterated that using renewable energy (RE) sources can help address the brownouts being experienced in Negros Occidental, Panay Island, and other areas in the country. Lapid said the country must improve usage of RE sources such as solar, wind, and hydropower. Using...
The crippling blackouts that plunged Panay island into a state of distress in the initial days of the New Year has less chance of recurrence because of the completion of the 230-kilovolt (kV) Cebu-Negros-Panay (CNP) project of the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines. That has been the...
President Marcos has prodded the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) to finish its projects on time as he hailed the organization as the "bedrock" of the country's progress and well-being. President Ferdinand ‘Bongbong’ Marcos Jr. (RTVM screenshot) Marcos said this as he led the...
President Marcos has lauded the energization and inauguration of the newly completed Cebu-Negros-Panay (CNP) 230-kiloVolt (kV) Backbone Stage 3 (CNP3), saying it brings the country one step closer to having a stable and reliable power transmission. President Ferdinand ‘Bongbong’ Marcos Jr....
The full energization of at least eight unserved off-grid domains in the provinces of Quezon, Palawan and Cebu will finally take off as the Department of Energy (DOE) has already awarded the contract that shall underpin the project’s implementation and eventual commercial operations. The...
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...
Renewable energy (RE) developments in the Alabat Wind Power Project are in full swing, as the Alabat Wind Power Corp. (AWPC) signed an interconnection agreement with the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP). The agreement between the grid firm and the subsidiary of Alternergy...
Qualified big-ticket contestable customers in Mindanao can finally exercise ‘power of choice’ on contracting their electricity services as the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) has already opened that segment of the industry for retail competition. Similar to the threshold for Luzon and...
HOUSTON – Generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI) is widely perceived and already being experienced by more mature markets as the next major ‘disruptor’ in energy markets – be it for predictive analytics for asset maintenance or optimizing power plant operations to empowering utilities...
As the country’s power supply is still at its wobbly state, the Department of Energy (DOE) guaranteed that it will conscientiously monitor the overall operations of the power grid so consumers can be alerted on any service interruptions and for relevant industry players to correspondingly sort...
