A limited hedge on fuel supply procurement that a power generator can avail of has been the major justification cited by Aboitiz Power Corporation for the higher rate of P5.69 per kilowatt hour (kWh) it offered to Manila Electric Company (Meralco) in their emergency power supply agreement...
Newly-designated Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) Chairperson Monalisa C. Dimalanta is being prodded this early to "prioritize the welfare" of Filipino consumers in her new role as chief regulator in the restructured electricity sector; instead of bowing down to the wishes of her former...
As the month of August is now more than halfway, the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) is now being prodded to make public the outcome of its investigations on the ‘forced outages’ violations of the generation companies that triggered the double whammy of rotational blackouts and rate spikes...
Another local pro-climate action group has underscored the urgency of the message being conveyed by the recent report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change or IPCC.
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“The science is clear: there is no time to lose for climate action,” said Jon...
The Philippines' continued preference for dirty energy sources like coal is no longer justifiable especially with the release of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) latest climate science findings, the Power for People Coalition (P4P) said on Tuesday, Aug. 10.
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The Department of Energy (DOE) lashed back Friday afternoon, July 23 at the Power for the People Coalition (P4P), calling the group "misinformed" after it filed complaints of gross neglect of duty against Energy Secretary Alfonso Cusi before the Office of the Ombudsman that same morning.
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Electricity consumer group Power for People Coalition (P4P) has again criticized Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Alfonso Cusi, who it described as more preoccupied with political intramurals than his supposed main function with the agency.
DOE Secretary Alfonso Cusi (Ariel Fernandez/...
Consumer group Power for People Coalition (P4P) condemned Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Alfonso Cusi's "preoccupation" with the leadership dispute in the PDP-Laban party while electricity rates remained high during his term.
DOE Secretary Alfonso Cusi (Photo from DOE Facebook page)
"As I...
There are still a bunch of coal-fired power plant projects that must be ditched if San Miguel Corporation (SMC) is to prove its commitment to cleaner sources of energy, a pro-environment group said.
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“If SMC wants to grasp at the renewable energy (RE)...
Consumer group Power for People Coalition (P4P) has welcomed the amendments being pushed by the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) on the implementation of price mitigation measures in the wholesale electricity spot market (WESM).
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The group acknowledged in a...
Jot down another victory for all the anti-coal advocates out there.
Clean energy and consumers rights group Power for People Coalition (P4P) hailed on Wednesday, April 28 the cancellation of the 600-megawatt (MW) Subic coal plant project listed under Redondo Peninsula Energy Inc. (RP Energy),...
