Consunji-led Semirara Mining and Power Corporation (SMPC) is pressing its ‘cost claims’ against its equipment supplier – American firm GE, on the extended shutdown of unit 2 of its 600-megawatt Sem-Calaca coal-fired power facility in Batangas. SMPC President Maria Cristina C. Gotianun said...
Chris Martin will mentor on "American Idol." As a Mother’s Day special, "American Idol" is doing a Coldplay-themed episode. Said episode is set for airing this May 9. The long-running singing competition, is already on its nineteenth season. The current season premiered in February and is now...
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 ultimate blame of the people is on the government, “whether we are in the right or in the wrong,” President Duterte said on Wednesday, April 28, as he mulls using “police power” to “control whatever there is to control.” President Rodrigo Duterte delivers a televised address on...
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),...
Listed firm Aboitiz Power Corporation has earmarked P23 billion capital expenditures (capex) this year that shall be funneled mainly to the completion of its 1,336-megawatt Dinginin coal-fired power facility and the concretization of pipelined battery energy storage system (BESS) projects. The...
Reopening the Philippine economy from all the coronavirus disease (COVID-19)-triggered lockdowns presents a "challenge" to the local power industry. Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Alfonso Cusi (Photo from DOE Facebook) Thus, said Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Alfonso Cusi on Tuesday,...
Meralco PowerGen Corporation (MGen), the power generation investment subsidiary of Manila Electric Company (Meralco) has completed the acquisition of the shareholdings of affiliate firm Global Business Power Corporation (GBP) on March 31 this year, according to Meralco executives. To partly fund...
Senator Sherwin Gatchalian on Sunday expressed fears that the upcoming power outages next month could affect the government’s rollout of the coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines. According to Gatchalian, there is a strong possibility several parts of Luzon would be experiencing rotational brownouts...
House Deputy Minority leader and Bayan Muna Rep. Carlos Isagani Zarate and Bayan Muna chairman former Rep. Neri Colmenares on Sunday (April 25) dared President Rodrigo Duterte to also look into excesses of monopolies in the power industry that have been holding consumers hostage in order to...
Hedcor Inc., a subsidiary of Aboitiz Power Corporation, that is into run-of-river hydropower ventures, had surpassed its power generation target of 123 kilowatt-hours (kWhs) within first quarter this year, with it logging total generation of 182 kWhs. Hedcor Vice President for Operations Rolando...
The recurring gas production restriction from the Malampaya field will de-rate anew the electricity generation of the 1,200-megawatt Ilijan gas-fired power facility in Batangas, one of the biggest power plants in the country. In an advisory sent by state-run National Power Corporation to plant...
