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State-run Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management Corporation (PSALM) is pursuing the collection of more than P33 billion worth of arrears from its contracted customers for power supply.            The bulk of the receivables, according to...

The La Niña weather phenomenon has already started driving down electricity rates this October in the country’s Wholesale Electricity Spot Market (WESM), with it going down by more than P1.00 per kilowatt hour (kwh) as of October 12 to P2.19 per kwh from the September average market price of...

The forthcoming maintenance schedule of the Malampaya gas production facility next month is expected to trigger hikes in the electricity bills that will be dispatched to Filipino consumers around Christmas time. The Malampaya gas field uses an innovative and sustainable deepwater technology for...

The Department of Energy (DOE) is pushing for revisions in the guidelines that must be followed by power plant owners and operators so they can prospectively limit the testing and commissioning of their facilities within a two-month span – a phase that the electric generating units would have to...

New wave of power plant outages and the recent gas output restriction at the Malampaya field triggered new round of spikes in prices at the Wholesale Electricity Spot Market (WESM), which will be subsequently passed on as rate hike in the consumers’ electric bills for October. In a virtual...