Electricity consumers will be greeted with a “Happy New Year rate hike” as they will need to pay more as subsidy to renewable energy (RE) projects via the feed-in-tariff allowance (FIT-All) line item in the electric bills that had been jacked up to P0.0983 per kilowatt hour (kwh), almost double...
Despite the perceived low capitalization of US$50 million dangled to foreign investors for integrated geothermal resource exploration and power plant development in the country, the Department of Energy (DOE) disclosed that there are no takers yet of the blocks being offered by the government....
The Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) has given the Green, Healthy, Smart, and Sustainable Ecozone Award to Lopez-led First Philippine Industrial Park (FPIP) for its “notable commitment to promoting healthy industrialization and sustainably-designed, smart, and green economic zone.”...
The government is currently studying if it can establish “technical justification” that will allow higher percentage of foreign investors’ shareholdings in renewable energy (RE) projects, primarily for wind and solar ventures. That policy option is currently being studied by the Department of...
The Department of Energy (DOE) has openly declared its ‘preferential treatment’ for renewable energy (RE) projects, but the government’s attention is also being called on managing concerns of efficient grid integration to avoid brownouts; as well as the competition that massive solar farm...
To force the country into ‘clean energy’ transition, the Department of Energy (DOE) has enforced moratorium on new coal-fired power plant projects. But it’s not time for the clean energy advocates to pop the champagne bottle yet, because the DoE qualified the moratorium will not cover...
Clean energy sources will be ‘green with envy’ as coal fuel sustained its dominance in the country’s power generation mix last year with a share of 54.6 percent, according to Department of Energy (DOE) data presented in the Senate. Coal’s fraction in the power generation pie was followed by...
The Department of Energy (DOE) is currently reviewing and processing at least 39 new projects that have applied for certificates of energy projects of national significance (CEPNS) so they can be extended streamlined processes in their permitting and licensing requirements....
The commercial operations of the country’s Renewable Energy Market (REM) for on-grid installations had been re-scheduled to June next year -- factoring in a one-year delay because of the continued pummeling of the health crisis, according to the Department of Energy....
The Department of Energy (DOE) has been swamped with solar project applications that will yield capacity installations of more than 13,217 megawatts, according to documents culled from the agency. As of June this year, energy department data showed that the array of solar projects proposed by...
