The Department of Energy (DOE) is dangling ‘captive electricity generation’ as a viable solution to the intensive energy needs of mining companies to bolster up whole chain development of critical minerals that will underpin technological innovations for the energy transition. “We’re...
Reinforcing the stream of ‘clean energy finance’ for emerging economies is seen as the major stimulus on concretizing the major commitments in last year’s climate change summit and must also top the agenda in this year’s COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan. Dr Fatih Birol, executive director of the...
Repower Energy Development Corp. (REDC) and the National Irrigation Administration (NIA) signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for possible hydropower facilities in Quezon, Camarines Sur, and Bohol. In a statement, REDC said that the hydropower unit of Pure Energy Holdings Corp. has received...
Motorists will be driving to their frustration at the pumps this week as the price of petroleum commodities will be on a new series of big-time price hikes as announced by the oil companies. Based on the pricing advisories of the industry players, the price of gasoline products will rise by P1.10...
The 14-megawat second phase of the Nabas wind farm project of Yuchengco-led PetroWind Energy Inc. (PWEI) has started shoring up power supply for the energy-strained Panay island after securing warranted clearances from relevant authorities and entities in the market. Prior to its injection of...
With pronouncements from the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) that the El Niño phenomenon may not be as worse as earlier predicted, the Department of Energy (DOE) is expecting that strain in the country’s power supply would also be moderated...
Honda Philippines Inc. is taking serious steps on its decarbonization journey, and it just concretized this goal with the commercial kick-off of its 1.056-megawatt solar rooftop facility that will partly provide for its electricity requirements. The solar rooftop was installed by solutions provider...
The glue on the partnership of the Department of Energy (DOE) and Department of Science and Technology (DOST) has been solidified for the advancement of research and development (R&D) for suite of technological innovations, automation of data management processes as well as georisk mapping for...
The full energization of at least eight unserved off-grid domains in the provinces of Quezon, Palawan and Cebu will finally take off as the Department of Energy (DOE) has already awarded the contract that shall underpin the project’s implementation and eventual commercial operations. The...
HOUSTON – The ‘stranglehold’ of critical minerals which is just in the hands of very few producer-countries is seen as a major factor that will cause enormous strain and will drive up costs for the consumers of many countries traversing their pathway to energy transition. In a plenary...
Lopez-led First Gen Corporation will be turning the stretch of its hydropower complex in Pantabangan, Nueva Ecija as a ‘mecca of green energy’, with new sites around the area already tagged for its planned solar and wind farm installations that will be amalgamated with battery energy storage...
As an integral part of the inaugural dialogue on the Asia Zero Emission Community (AZEC) underpinned by the Japanese and Philippine governments, the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) has signed a preliminary deal with three Philippine conglomerates for the development of projects...
