There is a silver lining after all amid the country’s energy insecurity dilemma, as oil prices will be on moderate rollback next week - a financial respite badly needed as consumers’ temper flare on consistent threat of rotational power service interruptions. According to the industry players,...
Amid soar in weather temperatures, demand for electricity in the country had reached its boiling point this week, as the highest demand of 14,016 megawatts on Wednesday (April 24) breached the peak demand projection of the Department of Energy (DOE) for this year. And while the country’s power...
The Department of Energy (DOE) is spearheading the Philippine government’s efforts on negotiating the administrative agreement (AA) that will be signed with the US government to underpin the “123 Agreement’ that was cemented last year for the targeted deployment of nuclear technologies in the...
Taisei Corp., a Japanese general contractor, has acquired a 25 percent stake in PetroGreen Energy Corp., a subsidiary of Rizal Green Energy Corp. that focuses on renewable energy. The investment made by Taisei will be used to build and operate four solar power projects. These include the...
Senators on Wednesday, April 24 urged the Department of Energy (DOE) and the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) to rein in and enforce stricter oversight on power generation companies (gencos) to ensure compliance with their scheduled outages. Sen. Francis “Chiz” Escudero said...
While many other power plants fail to deliver during this year’s El Nino-stricken weather temperatures, solar plants have been thriving as ‘powerhouse solution’ in shielding consumers from the wrath of unwanted blackouts or power service interruptions. Rotational brownouts would typically...
While Filipinos are being crippled by the stifling heat of summer, parts of Luzon grid descended into unwanted brownouts or services interruptions due to the prolonged forced outages of power plants and aggravated by the tripping of one major transmission line on Tuesday. In the franchise area of...
As the government cannot provide viable ‘quick fixes’ to the country’s shaky power supply situation, Luzon grid will have to increase its dependency on the interruptible load program (ILP) which is underpinned by the switch-on of generating sets (gensets) of big-ticket customers that are...
Senator Risa Hontiveros on Tuesday, April 23 urged the Department of Energy (DOE) to deliver a lastong solution to the recurrent power outages hitting the country during summer season. Hontiveros made the call as electricity demand increased during the summer months and forced the National Grid...
Repower Energy Development Corp. (REDC) said it plan to construct the country's first seawater pump storage hydropower facility in Real, Quezon after being granted a Hydropower Service Contract from the Department of Energy (DOE). In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange, the subsidiary of...
Luzon and Visayas grids are having a race against time when it comes to capacity additions – that is if the country has to seriously avoid the dire consequences of threatening power crisis into these two major power grids. The Philippine Independent Power Producers Association Inc. (PIPPA)...
Senator Raffy Tulfo stressed the need for intensified monitoring from the Department of Energy (DOE), National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP), and generation companies of power plants to avoid recurring brownouts. Tulfo, who chairs the Senate Committee on Energy, mentioned this as he...
