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...
Power rates have recently gone up this month due to the ancillary services (AS) charged by the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP). MORE Power reported on Saturday, March 23, that consumers will experience a P0.06 per kilowatt hour (kWh) increment owing to AS, which secure the power...
A top management role has pulled in for scion Antonio Miguel B. Alcantara who has been designated Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at Alsons Power of the Alcantara group, following the retirement of Tirso G. Santillan, who is the departing company CEO and Executive Vice President. As announced to the...
ILOILO CITY – Residents of this city, Iloilo province, and the island-province of Guimaras will not have a convenient and easy Sunday as the National Grid Corp. of the Philippines will impose a 12-hour blackout in these areas to conduct maintenance activities. In an advisory, the power...
An Executive Order (EO) mandating state-run National Transmission Corporation (TransCo) to build transmission facilities to underpin the wheeling of generated capacities from renewable energy (RE) facilities will be issued soon by President Marcos. In an exclusive interview on the sidelines of the...
Power system operator National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) will be leasing its fiber optics and other broadband-related infrastructure to the government to help concretize the wish of many Filipinos for high-speed internet connectivity. With an accelerated pace of rollout for the...
Summer is always associated with having high energy for much-awaited adventures and leisurely basking in the sun, but what’s lurking in the dark is the sting of skyrocketing electric bills as well as discontent of ‘tight power supply blues’ that could descend into worse scenarios of service...
Sen. Grace Poe reiterated the Senate's call for the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines to expedite the completion of the Cebu-Panay-Negros project and all other power transmission projects. "Delay is a denial of public service," she said in a statement on Thursday, Feb. 8. This was...
Senator Risa Hontiveros on Monday, February 5, said she doubts that introducing a third party supposedly to help accelerate the completion of delayed transmission projects of the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) would be effective in addressing the country’s concerns in the...
ILOILO CITY – The National Grid Corp. of the Philippines (NGCP) warned of power instability in Panay Island less than a month after the prolonged New Year power blackout. The NGCP announced on Thursday, February 1, that it may resort to manual loading dropping. “This is to preserve the...
The National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) celebrated the completion of the Mindanao-Visayas Interconnection by turning on the power in Manila, Cebu, and Lanao del Norte at the same time, marking the start of full commercial operations for the interconnection. The NGCP conducted a...
President Marcos has called on the country's energy players to ensure reliable power supply and prevent a recurrence of the Panay Island blackout that happened early this year, as this will lead to economic losses. President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. (Malacañang photo) Marcos said this as...
