Kusug Tausug Party-list Rep. Shernee Tan-Tambut (Rep. Tan-Tambut's office) While other solons chased the "best-dressed" title during President Marcos' State of the Nation Address (SONA), Kusug Tausug Party-list Rep. Shernee Tan-Tambut was busy perfecting...
President Marcos assured on Monday, July 22, that the country’s energy and internet connectivity capacities are being upgraded to be at par with the Philippines’ economic progress and aspirations. President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. delivers his third State of the Nation Address (SONA) on...
President Marcos said the government strives to build more infrastructure to help decrease the price of electricity for consumers. President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. (Noel Pabalate/MANILA BULLETIN) "Batid nating lahat na ang presyo ng kuryente dito sa ating bansa ay mataas (We are aware that...
Lights on? or lights off? That’s not one of the typical ‘fast talk’ questions being thrown by a country’s well-known television host, rather, that is a state of the country’s power supply that primarily distressed Filipino consumers in this year’s summer months. In the third State of...
The uptrend in the tariff of Manila Electric Company (Meralco) in its July billing will strain its customers’ household budgets, but a survey of selected power utilities in various parts of the country would show that its rate hike is still leaner versus peer-distribution firms. Meralco announced...
ILOILO CITY – Electric consumers in this city have to pay an additional P4.0817 per kilowatt-hour (kWh) in the July billing cycle. A LINEMAN of MORE Electric and Power Corp. (MORE Power) in Iloilo City. (Tara Yap) Lone power distributor MORE Electric and Power Corp. (MORE Power) announced that...
The government is planning to update nuclear agreements with at least five countries in accordance with the nuclear renaissance pathway, as fleshed out in the newly crafted 2024-2050 Philippine Nuclear Energy Program. The updating of multilateral and bilateral nuclear covenants, according to...
The US government is amenable to firming up an agreement on taking back ‘spent fuel’ that had already been irradiated once fissioned or burnt in reactor for nuclear technologies that American suppliers will be deploying to the Philippines. In a roundtable discussion with the Philippine media,...
Power utility giant Manila Electric Company (Meralco) has secured three contracts for a total of 500-megawatt capacity that will satiate its requirements for renewable energy (RE) supply portfolio as prescribed under the government-enforced Renewable Portfolio Standards. The tariffs cornered by the...
Aboitiz Power Corporation subsidiary Therma Luzon Inc. (TLI) has entered 17 Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) projects for communities inside its host province of Quezon and host Municipality of Pagbilao, in cooperation with various project partners and beneficiaries. AboitizPower...
The ‘energy insecure’ state of Luzon grid lingers, as system operator National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) declared second wave of ‘yellow alert’ condition in the country’s biggest power grid this week. The state of ‘yellow alert’, which entails insufficiency of power...
Prime Solar Solutions Corp., a unit of the Razon-led Prime Infrastructure Capital Inc., officially opened its 64-megawatt solar power facility in Maragondon, Cavite on Wednesday, July 17. In a statement, Guillaume Lucci, Prime Infra president and chief executive officer, said the completion of the...
