Investors from Norway and the United Kingdom who are placing their investment bets in the offshore wind industry of the Philippines have been reinforcing collaboration initiatives with the Philippine government on sorting out major bottlenecks that could stifle planned capital flow in the nascent...
The development of the country’s power grid network is still saddled with as much as P346.1 billion worth of unsettled right-of-way (ROW) claims, according to a top executive of the National Transmission Corporation (TransCo), the owner of the country’s power transmission assets. TransCo OIC...
The Department of Energy (DOE), German development agency Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), and other partners are collaborating on a training program that will simplify the implementation of renewable energy (RE) electrification for off-grid areas or sites that are...
The National Electrification Administration (NEA) has formally laid down to Congress a whopping P70 billion budget to achieve the goal of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. for nationwide electrification of all Filipino households within his term. NEA Administrator Antonio Mariano C. Almeda...
The Department of Energy (DOE) is eyeing grid integration of up to 94 gigawatts of additional power capacities of projects that are undergoing pre-development phases. Energy Undersecretary Sharon Garin told a Congressional budget briefing that these planned power facilities comprise of 176 targeted...
To prevent service disruptions arising from technical glitch in the operations of the country’s electricity network, system operator National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) has strongly called for a "holistic power planning" that will link all systems through the power supply chain....
Senate Deputy Minority Leader Senator Risa Hontiveros on Monday, August 14 said the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) should look into the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines’ (NGCP) account books and check whether it is correct to impose only a three percent franchise tax from the...
The Department of Energy (DOE) has endorsed at least 74 new projects this year that will advance into the system impact study (SIS) phase by system operator National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP). SIS refers to an engineering study that will comprehensively assess if additional...
Senator Sherwin Gatchalian on Friday, August 11, commended the Energy Regulatory Commission’s (ERC) decision to suspend the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) inclusion of a three percent (3%) franchise tax in its transmission costs billed to distribution utilities. Sen....
# ERC, NGCP discuss technical gaps By MYRNA M. VELASCO The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) has forthrightly raised to transmission firm National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) the need to immediately address the "technical gaps" in balancing the country’s power system so it can...
(Unsplash) A ranking House of Representatives member is asking the Department of Energy (DOE) to finish its performance review of the National Grid Corp. of the Philippines (NGCP) in the soonest possible time. Camarines Sur 2nd district Rep. LRay Villafuerte said that Congress "needs to decide soon...
Transmission firm National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) is eyeing "technology clustering" as one systematic approach that it can operationalize to streamline approvals of system impact study (SIS) for energy projects. The company advanced that proposal ahead of the scheduled meeting...