The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) issued advisory to relevant industry stakeholders that it will be holding new round of public consultations on the guidelines underpinning the competitive selection process (CSP) policy being enforced on the distribution utilities (DUs) and electric...
The Energy Regulatory Commission has granted the plea of power utility giant Manila Electric Company (Meralco) and its affiliate-firm Panay Energy Development Corporation (PEDC) on their contract price adjustment. In tandem with that ruling of the Commission had also been the approval on a...
State-run National Power Corporation (NPC) and its foreign development-partners have gained traction on rural solar photovoltaic (PV) installations that are set to benefit at least four electric cooperatives (EC) in Visayas and Mindanao grids. Via the Access to Sustainable Energy Programme (ASEP)...
The silent surge of electricity will get charged up into the transport fleets of the power distribution business units of Aboitiz Power Corporation, as the conglomerate lines up the electric vehicle (EV) shift of about 400 of its service cars and motorcycles. Anton Mari Perdices, chief operating...
State-run Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management Corp. (PSALM) is preparing the terms for the auction next year of the propounded 25-year concession deal for the rehabilitation of the 932-megawatt Agus-Pulangui hydropower assets in Mindanao. According to PSALM President Dennis Edward A....
BACOLOD CITY – An unscheduled power interruption affected the municipality of E.B. Magalona and Victorias City and portion of Manapla town in Negros Occidental on Tuesday, August 29. The power outage was first reported around 10:53 p.m. on Monday, August 28, due to busted lightning arrester...
The Department of Energy (DOE) has been swamped with questions as well as dissent from various quarters on its plan to enforce a policy that will mandate distribution utilities (DUs), primarily those in the Luzon grid, to procure prescribed percentage of their supply from gas-fired power...
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – The coronation night of the Miss Cagayan de Oro 2023 at the Limketkai Atrium on Saturday night, August 26, was marred by a brief power outage. A POWER outage mars the coronation night of the M iss Cagayan de Oro 2023 at Limketkai Atrium on Saturday, August 26. (Photo...
The development of the country’s power grid network is still saddled with as much as P346.1 billion worth of unsettled right-of-way (ROW) claims, according to a top executive of the National Transmission Corporation (TransCo), the owner of the country’s power transmission assets. TransCo OIC...
Jerry Nayoos, the vice president of the Poitan Farmers and Irrigators Association, deepens his ties to the earth, as well as his local community, with the help of the PUNLA project. In the heart of Poitan, Banaue and Hungduan in Ifugao, a group of farmers are pioneering an endeavor that has...
The Department of Energy (DOE) is engaging the relevant industry stakeholders so they can contribute insights and inputs in the updating of the Philippine Energy Plan (PEP) 2030-2050. The energy department advised that the Luzon leg of its information, education and communication (IEC) campaign on...
State-run Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management Corporation (PSALM) will be chasing P25.1 billion worth of receivables from distribution utilities (DUs) or electric cooperatives (ECs) with delinquent payments in their power supply over the years. According to PSALM President and CEO Dennis...
