The price offers from the coal plants of San Miguel Corporation and Aboitiz Power Corporation have been declared as best ‘lowest bids’ and prospective winners in the 600-megawatt supply procurement of power utility giant Manila Electric Company. The lowest acceptable price tenders in the...
Ahead of the global premiere of the highly anticipated season 2 of “The Lord of The Rings: The Rings of Power” on Prime Video, the cast and creators of the series visited Singapore for a special Asia Pacific screening. “The Lord of The Rings: The Rings of Power” (Prime Video)...
BACOLOD CITY – The Negros Electric Power Corp. (NEPC/Negros Power) restored power to more than 40,000 consumers here on Monday, August 26, five days after a series of power outages triggered by the shutdown of the Alijis substation on Wednesday, August 21. ROEL Castro (left), president and chief...
Power utility giant Manila Electric Company (Meralco) is ramping up its investment on enhancing the professional skills of prospective workers in the resuscitated nuclear power industry of the Philippines through the new scholarship deals it inked with Canadian and American universities. The...
BACOLOD CITY – A 10 MegaVolt Ampere (MVA) mobile substation from Iloilo City has been deployed to this city to augment the load requirements of the damaged Alijis substation. MORE Power has deployed a 10 MegaVolt Ampere (MVA) mobile substation from Iloilo City to Bacolod City on Saturday,...
The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) has firmly laid down that longstop date provision in power supply agreements (PSAs) will no longer be accepted downright as ground for unilateral contract pre-termination; and the allowable timeframe for regulatory approval shall also be within 270 days or at...
As it seriously takes its share of the burden on the global decarbonization goal, property developer Arthaland Corporation has signed a new power supply agreement (PSA) with Lopez-led First Gen Corporation for energy services that will ramp up its usage of renewable energy (RE) resources. According...
BACOLOD CITY – At least 47,000 households or 22 percent of the 224,000 consumers served by the Negros Electric and Power Corp. (NEPC/Negros Power) have been affected by the widespread unscheduled power interruption here since Wednesday night, August 21. AN employee of the Negros Electric and...
Razon-led firm Primelectric Holdings, Inc (PHI) has acquired the 70 percent majority stake in Bohol Light Company Inc. (BLCI), a power utility servicing Tagbiliran City that was divested by SPC Power Corporation, a company chaired by businessman Alfredo Henares. Following the shares unloading of...
With 2023 marked as the hottest year on record, the growing impact of human activity on our environment has become impossible to ignore. Asia, known for its vulnerability to natural disasters, is experiencing the effects more intensely than ever, according to a report from the World Meteorological...
ILOILO CITY – MORE Electric and Power Corp. (MORE Power), the sole power distributor here, has refunded P2.8 million in bill deposits to 685 consumers in this city from June 2023 to this month. MARIA Cristina Cabalhin, MORE Power...
Power utility giant Manila Electric Company (Meralco) has rescheduled to August 27 this year the final submission of offers for its 600-megawatt baseload capacity sourcing that will be slated for delivery by August next year. In a new bid bulletin issued on Monday, Aug. 19, Meralco specified that...
