The Philippines, the United States and Japan held their first ever talks on the upcoming Luzon Economic Corridor at the sidelines of the Indo-Pacific Business Forum, the US' premier public-private event. Presidential Adviser for Investment and Economic Affairs Frederick Go on Tuesday, May 21, sat...
CAMP Olivas, City of San Fernando, Pampanga – Eleven New People’s Army rebels surrendered to the government from May 1 to 14 in Central Luzon. Police Regional Office-3 chief Police Brig. Gen. Jose S. Hidalgo Jr. identified the surrenderers as Ka Gurang, Ka Leonila, Ka Lyn, Ka Ayana, Ka...
President Marcos expects more foreign investments to come in for his administration’s Luzon Economic Corridor project as it benefits from the government's investment promotion program. President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. (Photo from the Presidential Communications Office) Speaking...
President Marcos said the country's various economic zones are open to all foreign investors as he renewed his pitch to foreign businesses to look at the Philippines as an investment destination. President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. (Noel Pabalate) Marcos said this as he discussed the...
While Filipinos are being crippled by the stifling heat of summer, parts of Luzon grid descended into unwanted brownouts or services interruptions due to the prolonged forced outages of power plants and aggravated by the tripping of one major transmission line on Tuesday. In the franchise area of...
Luzon and Visayas grids are having a race against time when it comes to capacity additions – that is if the country has to seriously avoid the dire consequences of threatening power crisis into these two major power grids. The Philippine Independent Power Producers Association Inc. (PIPPA)...
Three high-impact projects under the Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA) have been endorsed to the American and Japanese Investors in the Luzon Economic Corridor plan. In a statement on Monday, April 22, the BCDA said the top projects listed were the Subic-Clark Railway Project...
Wheeling of generated capacities from power plants sited in the southern part of Luzon could be impeded if delays in the 500-kilovolt (kV) Tuy-Dasmarinas transmission line project of the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) could not be avoided due to pending legal hurdles, primarily...
TGIF is not something that electricity consumers in the Luzon grid can happily look forward to, as they will have to close the week agonizing over new threats of rotational blackouts with Luzon grid being placed on ‘red alert’ for the third time this week. On Friday morning, system operator...
The "prince of darkness" is taking back the crippling journey to Luzon, as the country’s major power grid has been placed on "red alert" for the second time this week – entailing that consumers must prepare for the strike of probable rotational brownouts. System operator National Grid...
Power supply in the Luzon system is still at its ‘fragile state’, prompting system operator National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) to declare fresh wave of ‘yellow alert’ condition in the grid on Wednesday (April 17) as 18 electric generating units are still on forced outages....
President Marcos urged Filipinos to work with the government to ensure a stable power supply by conserving energy in light of the Red and Yellow Alerts in the Luzon Grid. President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. (Noel Pabalate) Marcos said this after the National Grid Corporation of the...
