CAMP OSCAR FLORENDO, La Union – Police in the Ilocos region have been placed under red alert for “Simbang Gabi” (dawn Mass) and the rest of the holiday season. "It is our tradition at the beginning of Simbang Gabi that our police officers are alert in the churches, so I have given a directive...
CAGAYAN -- The Cagayan Valley Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (CVDRRMC) and the different concerned agencies have been on red alert in preparation for an impending landfall of tropical depression ‘Florita.’ Based on the information provided by the Office of Civil Defense (OCD)...
Alyansa ng mga Grupong Haligi ng Agham at Teknolohiya Para sa Mamamayan (AGHAM) President Angelo Palmones has faulted energy authorities for their lack of foresight and action regarding nuclear-based power generation, which could have helped avoid the recent spate of "red alert" status in the Luzon...
Secretary Alfonso Cusi doesn't believe that he has been remiss in his job as Department of Energy (DOE) chief as a result of him tending to his tasks related to politics. DOE Secretary Alfonso Cusi (Ariel Fernandez / File photo/ MANILA BULLETIN) Cusi also wears the hat of vice chairman of ruling...
Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Alfonso Cusi apologized to the public Thursday, June 3 for the rotational brownouts that struck parts of Luzon the past few days when power reserves in the region were way down. DOE Secretary Alfonso Cusi (Screengrab from Facebook live) In a televised press...
The Department of Energy (DOE) has stressed that it wants "compliance" from power plants, distribution utilities (DUs), and other industry players when it comes to the rules it is implementing amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. DOE Undersecretary Felix William Fuentebella (PCOO /...
’TOL VIEWS Senator Francis N. Tolentino The National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) has placed the entire Luzon grid under red alert due to insufficient power supply. As rotational brownouts loom due to low power reserves brought by high electricity demand, this latest electricity...
The Department of Energy (DOE) wants the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) to look into the various power plant outages that has caused the Luzon grid to slip in an out of "red alert" status. (Photo by Hey Porter / Unsplash) "Being a performance issue, the DOE likewise calls on the ERC to look...
Dwindling power reserves Monday, May 31 caused the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) to declare "red alert" and "yellow alert" status over the Luzon grid, it was learned from the Department of Energy (DOE). (Photo from DOE Facebook page) A statement from the DOE Monday bared that...
