Anchoring it on average gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate of 6.0 to 8.0-percent, the Department of Energy (DOE) had cast an industrialization pace for the country as articulated in the updated Philippine Energy Plan (PEP) stretching through year 2050. “Consistent with the industrialization...
The Department of Energy (DOE) is planning to re-calibrate the country’s power mix by opting to retire coal-fired power facilities at the scale of 5,000 megawatts in the medium term. According to Michael Sinocruz, director of the DOE’s Energy Policy and Planning Bureau, that has been one of the...
Foreign investors in the offshore wind industry are being perturbed with another round of policy uncertainty being thrown their way – this time, it is on the plan of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) to enforce "seabed lease" for them to secure rights for ocean floor or...
Power utility giant Manila Electric Company (Meralco) is leading the race on compliance to the Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS) with 1,880 megawatts of contracted renewable energy (RE) already secured in its supply portfolio. The power firm indicated that it was able to surpass its initial...
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) will be issuing guidelines for the "opt-in mechanism" of industry participants on procuring percentage of their required renewable energy-generated supply from a pool of government-awarded RE capacity under the green energy auction program (GEAP). In a draft Circular...
The Department of Energy (DOE) is engaging the relevant industry stakeholders so they can contribute insights and inputs in the updating of the Philippine Energy Plan (PEP) 2030-2050. The energy department advised that the Luzon leg of its information, education and communication (IEC) campaign on...
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...
ThermaPrime Drilling Corporation (ThermaPrime), a subsidiary of Lopez-led First Philippine Holdings Corp (FPH), said it has completed drilling of its 15 wells for Philippine Geothermal Production Company Inc. (PGPC), the pioneer geothermal resource exploration and development company of the Sy...
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...
For the third time, the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) suspended the feed-in-tariff allowance (FIT-ALL) charge in the electric bills of consumers to help ease the financial burden of ordinary Filipinos. The regulatory body ordered the suspension Tuesday, Aug. 22, the third time the...
President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. has ordered the exploration of other renewable energy sources in the country. President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. (Photo courtesy of PPA Pool/KJ Rosales) Marcos made the order in a sectoral meeting in Malacañang on Tuesday, Aug. 22. Noting that there...
