President Marcos has called on the country's energy players to ensure reliable power supply and prevent a recurrence of the Panay Island blackout that happened early this year, as this will lead to economic losses. President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. (Malacañang photo) Marcos said this as...
President Marcos lauded the full energization of the Mindanao-Visayas Interconnection Project (MVIP) as this endeavor unifies the country's power system and opens socioeconomic opportunities in the two islands. UNIFIED PH POWER SYSTEM — President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. (center) leads the...
Senator Grace Poe on Thursday, January 18 urged the government, the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP), and other stakeholders to immediately put a stop to the rotational blackouts occurring in the Western Visayas region. “The rotational blackout in parts of Western...
Senator Imee Marcos on Tuesday, January 9 said she remains unconvinced over proposals that investing part of the Maharlika Fund in the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) would be the best way to solve the country’s power transmission problems. Marcos pointed out...
The Presidential Communications Office (PCO) said that the supply of electricity has been restored in Panay Island in the Western Visayas as the power plant in the region resumed operation on Friday, Jan. 5. Citing an interview with Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) Chairperson Monalisa Dimalanta,...
Sen. Raffy Tulfo stressed on Friday, Jan. 5, that the "rampant failure" of the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) to do its obligation in operating, maintaining, and developing the country’s power grid is sufficient ground to warrant a review and eventual termination of its...
The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) should thoroughly investigate and verify the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines’ (NGCP) claims they are spending P8.7-billion on janitorial and security services for a purported total of 583 facilities, each costing the company P87,000 per...
# ERC, NGCP discuss technical gaps By MYRNA M. VELASCO The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) has forthrightly raised to transmission firm National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) the need to immediately address the "technical gaps" in balancing the country’s power system so it can...
(Unsplash) A ranking House of Representatives member is asking the Department of Energy (DOE) to finish its performance review of the National Grid Corp. of the Philippines (NGCP) in the soonest possible time. Camarines Sur 2nd district Rep. LRay Villafuerte said that Congress "needs to decide soon...
Transmission firm National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) is eyeing "technology clustering" as one systematic approach that it can operationalize to streamline approvals of system impact study (SIS) for energy projects. The company advanced that proposal ahead of the scheduled meeting...
Executive Secretary Lucas P. Bersamin, who serves as chairman of the Steering Committee for the Energy Virtual One-Stop Shop (EVOSS) system of project permitting, is pushing for a 60-day process from almost two years for the issuance of system impact study (SIS) for grid connection of power...
The ongoing performance audit on transmission firm National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) is not a "punitive exercise", rather, it is a process that will allow industry regulators and policymakers to explore ways how service in this segment of the power supply chain could be improved...
