On World Water Day, San Miguel Corporation (SMC) reported that its businesses collectively saved some 33,865,901,000 liters of water from 2017 to 2022 — equivalent to the annual consumption of over 94,000 households, or the monthly use of over 1.129 million families. The water savings,...
The Department of Energy (DOE) is giving guarantee to the grid integration of more than 13,000 megawatts of new renewable energy (RE) capacities to be on commercial stream in the next three years. That had been the assurance given by Energy Undersecretary Rowena Cristina L. Guevara when she laid...
State-run Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management Corporation (PSALM) has moved to May 16 this year the sale of the 165-megawatt Casecnan hydropower facility instead of March 28. According to PSALM President Dennis Edward A. Dela Serna, the asset-seller firm has yet to finalize the Water...
In light of Rabies Awareness Month, the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) urged the public to vaccinate their pets to prevent rabies infections and rabies-related injuries and deaths. In a statement, PhilHealth acting president and chief executive officer Emmanuel R. Ledesma, Jr....
With President Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr. and Defense Secretary Carlito Galvez, Jr. as witnesses, the director-general of the National Intelligence Coordinating Agency (NICA) and the president of the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) signed in Malacañang Palace last week a...
Alcantara-led Alsons Consolidated Resources Inc., (ACR) was able to maintain its ‘stable outlook’, relative to the P3 billion worth of commercial papers (CP) issuance that the company has resorted to in raising additional funding for its ongoing projects. The positive rating of the company has...
The Israel Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines, Inc. (ICCP) recently held a webinar entitled ‘Aquaculture Innovation: Spotlight on Israeli Tech to Meet the Rising Food Demand.’ The event was held to exchange ideas on the aquaculture systems used and developed by Israeli fisheries and to...
Ayala-led ACEN Corporation has inked a purchase and sale agreement (PSA) with American firm GlidePath for the acquisition of the latter’s eight operating wind projects with aggregate capacity of 136 megawatts in northern Texas. This will be the entry point of ACEN and its partner UPC Power...
Ayala-led ACEN Corporation has partnered with US firm BrightNight for 1,200-megawatt (1.2-gigawatt) renewable energy portfolio buildup that will be installed in the Indian energy market. In a statement to the media Monday, March 13, the Ayala firm indicated that the equity to be injected by the...
The Philippines now has better defenses against any attack on its cybersystems following the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) that would assist its premiere intelligence agency, President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. said. Marcos said this as he witnessed the signing of the MOU...
Retrofitting existing gas-fired power plants to hydrogen, which is also a business model eyed by several energy firms in the Philippines for their mid-century net zero targets, could take five to seven years, according to an expert from a Japanese global engineering firm. Takakazu Morimoto,...
On behalf of the Republic of Türkiye and Syria, the Philippine Red Cross (PRC) received and transported the P5 million cash and 200 generators donated by the SM Foundation Inc. for Türkiye-Syria earthquake victims. Courtesy of Philippine Red Cross PRC was tapped by the two counties as its...
