November 13, 2017

Govt issues draft policies on power-market operator

By Lenie Lectura – November 13, 2017 From Business Mirror THE country’s trading floor for buying and selling electricity would be led by an independent market operator (IMO) whose members do not have any ties with the government and power-industry participants. This was […]
November 10, 2017

Pagbilao gas-fired plant builder gets ERC approval

By Lenie Lectura – November 9, 2017 from Business Mirror ENERGY World Power Operations Philippines Inc. (Ewpopi), a wholly owned subsidiary of Energy World Corp. Ltd., has secured the go-ahead of the regulators to develop a transmission facility that will connect its […]
November 10, 2017

Higher power rates this month–Meralco

By Lenie Lectura -November 9, 2017 from Business Mirror Power rates this month will increase by P0.3436 per kilowatt hour (kWh) for a typical residential household, thereby bringing the overall rate from last month’s P9.2836 per kWh to P9.6272 per kWh. The […]
November 9, 2017

Viewpoint: UPDATE: WAR ON CORRUPTION IN BUSECO AND OTHER ELECTRIC COOPERATIVES IN MINDANAO

By the Mindanao Coalition of Power Consumers November 5, 2017 from David Tauli In the period 2013-2014, sixteen electric cooperatives in Mindanao entered into anomalous contracts for power supply for their consumers with the 405-MW coal power plant of the […]