To institutionalize N-1 contingency in a major transmission backbone in the Luzon grid, transmission firm National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) has completed a project that will improve reliability of electricity wheeling in the country’s main power grid. The recently energized...
The Department of Energy (DOE) is giving its word that brownouts will not hamstring the anticipated COVID-19 vaccine rollouts in the coming months, so the country can finally sneak away from the reins of the pandemic. According to Energy Undersecretary Felix William B. Fuentebella, the department...
As part of its continuing efforts to help the Filipino people combat the COVID-19 pandemic, the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) donated test booths and COVID-19 test kits to the local government of Pasay City. NGCP turned over 50 test booths and 10,000 COVID-19 antibody test...
Sporadic power interruptions were experienced in Mindanao on Monday (January 18), following reported sabotage on a transmission facility of the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) - primarily Tower 60 of the 138-kilovolt Balo-i-Aurora line in Tangcal, Lanao del Norte. The attack on...
The interface of the information technology (IT) platform for the permitting of energy projects under the Energy Virtual One-Stop Shop (EVOSS) is targeted for completion this year, according to the Department of Energy. The initial interface, according to Michael Sinocruz, chief of the DOE’s...
National Grid Corp. of the Philippines is planning an initial public offering that could raise as much as $1 billion, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The high-voltage electricity network operator, commonly known as NGCP, has invited several banks to submit proposals for the share...
Transmission firm National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) is seeking lawmakers’ imprimatur for it to be allowed to import Covid-19 vaccine tax-free as these doses will be used for its employees. NGCP President Anthony L. Almeda said with this gesture from the State, businesses would...
Transmission firm National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) has completed and energized the 230-kilovolt Toril-Bunawan transmission line, which forms the final loop of the P7.09 billion Mindanao backbone project. With the project’s completion, the company noted that “this will secure...
Private transmission firm National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) has successfully completed the reinforcement of the 230-kilovolt San Jose-Quezon transmission line in the Luzon grid to prepare the system for targeted capacity additions....
Transmission system operator National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) set the record straight that it should not be blamed for the severe flooding incidents in Cagayan and Isabela provinces, because the company is not involved in matters relating to the release of water from the Magat...
Typhoon “Ulysses” showed its wrath not just with its blustering wind and the volume of rain it dumped on some areas, but also with brownouts while it pummeled Metro Manila and various parts of Luzon Thursday. A fisherman secures his wooden boat on a road in Santo Domingo, Albay province on...
Electricity service restoration in typhoon-ravaged provinces in the Bicol region is now on its accelerated pace, with power supply already back in Naga City and three towns in Camarines Sur; while several towns in Camarines Norte already gained back their power service. In an update report of the...
