December 23, 2017

SMC to borrow $1.3 B for Masinloc plant purchase

By Myrna M. Velasco – December 22, 2017, 10:01 PM from Manila Bulletin Diversifying conglomerate San Miguel Corporation (SMC) will be tapping the capital markets again next year for roughly $1.3 billion worth of fresh borrowings to finance its 630-megawatt Masinloc […]
December 23, 2017

Urgent Biddings Needed to Assure Future Power Supply. Lets Hope Old ERC Officials are Not Recycled

David Celestra Tan, MSK 22 December 2017 The suspension of the four (4) ERC Commissioners by the Office of the Ombudsman over the inexplicable postponement of the CSP policy will throw in limbo the 3,551mw that Meralco signed with sister […]
December 22, 2017

Rules on renewables costly

By Alena Mae S. Flores – December 21, 2017 at 07:20 pm from manilastandard.net Power retailer Manila Electric Co. warned that consumers would shoulder more than P100 billion annually by 2030 under the government’s mandate of a 35-percent renewable energy share in the […]
December 22, 2017

San Miguel offers Ilijan plant if Malampaya gas dries up

By Lenie Lectura – December 21, 2017 from Business Mirror   SOUTH Premiere Power Corp. (SPPC) may operate the 1,200-megawatt (MW) Ilijan combined-cycle power plant as a peaking facility when gas from Malampaya runs out. This was expressed by Ramon Ang, president […]