State-run Philippine National Oil Company (PNOC) is engaging into a new business niche by positioning as retail electricity supplier (RES), primarily to satiate the power supply requirements of the government agencies nationwide. In an interview, PNOC President and CEO Oliver B. Butalid indicated...
The Department of Energy (DOE) is counting on the capacity contribution of greenfield solar plants that are coming on commercial stream during the summer months, primarily to plug capacity gap arising from the de-rated generation of the hydro plants due to the incursion of El Niño spell. In a...
The Christmas gift for the roughly 8.0 million customers of Manila Electric Company (Meralco) will be bundled up in their electric bills, as the overall tariff of the utility firm in its December billing cycle had been down by P0.7961 per kilowatt hour. On an all-inclusive basis, the electricity...
Power utility giant Manila Electric Company (Meralco) will be seeking offers from power generation companies (GenCos) on its scheduled auction of 1,200-megawatt baseload power supply that will replace brownfield capacities currently drawn mainly from emergency power supply procurements. In a tender...
(Photo from Meralco) Santa Rosa lone district Rep. Dan Fernandez is prodding the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) to halt the alleged questionable 1,800-megawatt (MW) power supply agreement (PSA) that the Manila Electric Company (Meralco) intends to bid...
Lopez-led First Gen Corporation has awarded its next cargo of liquefied natural gas (LNG) delivery to multinational fuel trading firm Trafigura Pte Ltd. Based on the awarded contract, Trafigura will have to supply one cargo LNG with a volume of roughly 154,500 cubic meters (m3) – which will be...
Power utility giant Manila Electric Company (Meralco) has initially cornered prospective offers of 3,310 megawatts from six (6) interested bidders on its scheduled competitive selection process (CSP) for capacity procurement of 1,800MW that will satiate its additional supply portfolio for 2024 and...
The 7.8 million customers of Manila Electric Company (Meralco) will need to cough up higher budget in their electric bills this month, as the company’s overall pass-on tariff went up by P0.2347 per kilowatt hour (kWh) to P12.0545 per kWh from P11.8198 per kWh in the October billing cycle. For...
The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) has prescribed a two-tiered review process before the power supply agreements (PSAs) or contracts underwritten via competitive selection process (CSP) could secure regulatory approval. That has been the main stipulation in the new CSP guidelines that was...
The industrial sector has started showing signs of prospective rebound as the drop on energy sales had already narrowed down to 1.0%, power utility giant Manila Electric Company (Meralco) has noted. Sales to manufacturing facilities and key industries, the power firm said, hovered at 10,570...
Buoyed by the strong financial showing of its power generation business portfolio, the consolidated core net income of power utility giant Manila Electric Company (Meralco) had surged 53-percent to P30.023 billion in this year’s nine-month period versus P19.605 billion within a comparative period...
To fulfill the President’s mandate for the country’s full electrification during his term, the Department of Energy (DOE) is scheduling within this quarter the first competitive selection process (CSP) or auction for the investors being enticed to energize more than 15,000 households along the...
