Renewable energy (RE) companies had been enforced with a moratorium, so they will not demand for penalty or interest payments on any delayed settlements of the feed-in-tariff (FIT) incentives that fund administrator National Transmission Corporation (TransCo) will be paying them. In an advisory,...
Leading oil firm Petron Corporation has bounced back with P1.73 billion net income in first quarter this year, wiping out massive net loss of P4.9 billion posted in the same period in 2020. With improved operational performance, Petron announced that it earmarked P11 billion capital expenditures...
Filipino motorists will need to cough up additional amounts in their fuel budgets as the price of diesel and kerosene products will increase by P0.35 per liter this week, based on the pricing advisories of the oil companies. The price of gasoline, which is the other commodity in the weekly price...
The revenues yielded by the country’s Malampaya gas production facility already topped $11.9 billion (equivalent to P573 billion at prevailing peso-dollar exchange rate) with the national government getting the bulk with a share of P325 billion as of end-December 2020, according to the Department...
Pangilinan-led PXP Energy Corporation has significantly slashed its losses in the first quarter to P5.6 million from a relatively heftier P16.9 million within the same three-month stretch last year. The company’s net loss attributable to equity holders of its parent firm had been at P4.3 million,...
Households can breathe easy on their cooking fuel budgets this month as the price of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) will be on a rollback of P3.20 per kilogram or an aggregate P35.20 for the standard 11-kg cylinder patronized by most residential users. As of press time, the LPG industry players that...
The prospective bidders in the 650-megawatt Malaya thermal power plant had been trimmed to two companies, from originally 4 to 5 companies, but state-run Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management Corporation (PSALM) said it is still keen on divesting the facility via a negotiated deal by May 7...
The Department of Energy (DOE) is solidifying partnership with the United States government on policy formulation that the Philippines would be needing for the rebirth of its gas industry that shall be ushered in by liquefied natural gas (LNG) importations. The tie-up of the two governments is...
System operator National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) carried out its ‘blackout simulation drill’ as part of its emergency preparation measures in case any of the power grids would descend into unwanted power interruptions or brownouts. Similar to last year, the company noted the...
Project sponsor-firm Vires Energy Corporation (VEC), a subsidiary of listed firm A. Brown Company Inc., has formally admitted to the Department of Energy (DOE) the information lapse on its targeted deployment of floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) that is tied to its planned liquefied...
The consolidated net income of Aboitiz Power Corporation had climbed by a very significant 200-percent in the first quarter to P6.2 billion from a relatively trimmed bottom line of P2.1 billion in the same period last year. The company said it logged non-recurring losses of P29 million within the...
The 63-megawatt greenfield Gigasol Palauig solar farm development of Ayala-led AC Energy Philippines Corporation has reached commercial operation phase and is now feeding capacity into Luzon grid. The company injected P2.39 billion into that newly completed project; and its scale of electricity...
