President Marcos rejected suggestions that there was an artificial power crisis in the Philippines after different alert levels were raised in the country's power grids, saying the demand increased due to the ongoing El Niño. President Ferdinand ‘Bongbong’ Marcos Jr. (KJ Rosales/PPA Pool)...
Sen. Raffy Tulfo has filed a resolution that seeks to investigate the alarming power supply issue hounding the country. Tulfo who chairs the Senate Committee on Energy, filed Senate Resolution No. 1008 following the declaration of red and yellow alerts in the Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao grids. A...
The Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS) wants to recommend maintaining the current water supply allocation to sufficiently meet the demand during the summer season. MWSS Division Manager Patrick Dizon told Manila Bulletin on Thursday, April 25, that they will be meeting with...
Misery loves company - and Mindanao seems not passing up on a chance to commiserate with the electricity service woes of co-consumers in Luzon and Visayas, hence, it has been joining in the appalling power industry chaos. On Wednesday (April 24), system operator National Grid Corporation of the...
Despite recent energy woes and power outages in Luzon, President Marcos on Tuesday, April 23, assured that the Philippines has enough power supply and is poised to bring renewable sources of energy to stabilize the output. President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. presides over a situation briefing...
There is a sufficient supply of food, particularly rice despite the impacts of El Niño in the country, President Marcos said. President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. (Noel Pabalate) “Well, kung ang pag-uusapan natin ay bigas, sapat naman ang ating supply. Hindi kailangang mag-alala ang tao. Sa...
The Philippine subsidiary of Japanese electronic giant Murata Inc. has renewed its power supply agreement (PSA) with Lopez-led First Gen Corporation for the provision of electricity services at its manufacturing facility in Batangas. First Gen emphasized that the supply to be delivered to...
Leading player Aboitiz Power Corporation is scheduling the issuance of notice-to-proceed (NTP) for the construction of the next round of 1,000 megawatts (MW) of greenfield solar farm ventures that it is targeting to bring to commercial operations in the next two years. In a briefing with the media,...
Luzon and Visayas grids are having a race against time when it comes to capacity additions – that is if the country has to seriously avoid the dire consequences of threatening power crisis into these two major power grids. The Philippine Independent Power Producers Association Inc. (PIPPA)...
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) said that El Niño did not have a significant impact on the sugarcane harvest in the country. In a recent report, the USDA-Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) revised its forecast for raw sugar production, increasing it by 50,000 metric tons...
Wheeling of generated capacities from power plants sited in the southern part of Luzon could be impeded if delays in the 500-kilovolt (kV) Tuy-Dasmarinas transmission line project of the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) could not be avoided due to pending legal hurdles, primarily...
BACOLOD CITY – PrimeWater Infrastructure Inc. has unveiled two projects to bolster the water supply of households in the northern part of this city by a total of four million liters per day (MLD). The groundbreaking of the Forbes Hill Water Source Interconnection and the Highland Hills projects...
