The sudden forced outages at the units 1 and 2 generating units of the Kalayan hydropower plant in Laguna past 4:00pm on Tuesday served as the final trigger to the rotational brownouts that had been scheduled in some provinces in the Luzon grid. By 4:15pm, system operator National Grid Corporation...
As it is becoming apparent that the government may have been failing on its projection of ‘no red alert’ and sufficient power supply within the stretch of the summer months, the Department of Energy (DOE) is appealing to the industrial and commercial end-users in particular to pare their...
Therma South Inc. (TSI), a subsidiary of Aboitiz Power Corp., emerged champion in the industrial brigade category in the recent Davao City Fire District Fire Olympics. FIREFIGHTERS from Aboitiz Power Corp. subsidiary Therma South Inc. are all smiles after topping the industrial brigade category of...
Senator Francis Tolentino (left), President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. (Facebook, MANILA BULLETIN) Senator Francis "Tol" Tolentino is asking President Marcos to certify as urgent measure on nuclear damage compensation and nuclear...
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...
ILOILO CITY – MORE Electric and Power Corp. (MORE Power), the sole electric distributor in this city, welcomed the energization of the Cebu-Negros-Panay 230-kilovolt (kV) backbone project of the National Grid Corp. of the Philippines. THE substation of the National Grid Corp. of the Philippines...
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...
ILOILO CITY – MORE Electric and Power Corp. (MORE Power), the sole power distributor here, has refunded P1.5 million in bill deposits to consumers in this city. ENERGY Secretary Raphael ‘Popo’ Lotilla meets MORE Power President and Chief Executive Officer Roel Castro after inspecting the...
The script for market dynamics will be flipped this April because instead of a rate hike, power utility giant Manila Electric Company (Meralco) is hinting at a rate reduction in the electric bills of its roughly 8.0 million customers within this billing cycle. Meralco Vice President and Head of...
The 14-megawat second phase of the Nabas wind farm project of Yuchengco-led PetroWind Energy Inc. (PWEI) has started shoring up power supply for the energy-strained Panay island after securing warranted clearances from relevant authorities and entities in the market. Prior to its injection of...
A new chapter in the professional métier of industry hotshot Emmanuel “Manny” V. Rubio will be unfolding soon, as whispers are getting louder on his appointment as the next chief executive officer of Meralco PowerGen (MGen), the power generation investment arm of Manila Electric Company...
With pronouncements from the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) that the El Niño phenomenon may not be as worse as earlier predicted, the Department of Energy (DOE) is expecting that strain in the country’s power supply would also be moderated...
