Despite recent energy woes and power outages in Luzon, President Marcos on Tuesday, April 23, assured that the Philippines has enough power supply and is poised to bring renewable sources of energy to stabilize the output. President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. presides over a situation briefing...
The Philippine subsidiary of Japanese electronic giant Murata Inc. has renewed its power supply agreement (PSA) with Lopez-led First Gen Corporation for the provision of electricity services at its manufacturing facility in Batangas. First Gen emphasized that the supply to be delivered to...
Leading player Aboitiz Power Corporation is scheduling the issuance of notice-to-proceed (NTP) for the construction of the next round of 1,000 megawatts (MW) of greenfield solar farm ventures that it is targeting to bring to commercial operations in the next two years. In a briefing with the media,...
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)...
Wheeling of generated capacities from power plants sited in the southern part of Luzon could be impeded if delays in the 500-kilovolt (kV) Tuy-Dasmarinas transmission line project of the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) could not be avoided due to pending legal hurdles, primarily...
Power supply in the Luzon system is still at its ‘fragile state’, prompting system operator National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) to declare fresh wave of ‘yellow alert’ condition in the grid on Wednesday (April 17) as 18 electric generating units are still on forced outages....
The sudden forced outages at the units 1 and 2 generating units of the Kalayan hydropower plant in Laguna past 4:00pm on Tuesday served as the final trigger to the rotational brownouts that had been scheduled in some provinces in the Luzon grid. By 4:15pm, system operator National Grid Corporation...
As it is becoming apparent that the government may have been failing on its projection of ‘no red alert’ and sufficient power supply within the stretch of the summer months, the Department of Energy (DOE) is appealing to the industrial and commercial end-users in particular to pare their...
Senator Lito Lapid has reiterated that using renewable energy (RE) sources can help address the brownouts being experienced in Negros Occidental, Panay Island, and other areas in the country. Lapid said the country must improve usage of RE sources such as solar, wind, and hydropower. Using...
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...
As the country’s power supply is still at its wobbly state, the Department of Energy (DOE) guaranteed that it will conscientiously monitor the overall operations of the power grid so consumers can be alerted on any service interruptions and for relevant industry players to correspondingly sort...