September 20, 2016

Can there Still be A truly competitive CSP with 5 Major IPP’s Partnering with Meralco PowerGen in a Cartel?

David Celestra Tan, MSK Meralco PowerGen’s cartel has currently proposed 4,100mw of coal projects with five (5) major erstwhile independent power generators that on their own also control about another 5,000mw of power plants. That’s 80% already of the country’s […]
September 20, 2016

PEMC data confirms WESM power-rate increase in August

by Lenie Lectura – September 19, 2016 from Business Mirror August power rates at the Wholesale Electricity Spot Market (WESM) shot up following seven instances of yellow alert and three instances of red alert in the supply month, data from the Philippine […]
September 20, 2016

ERC formally junks ‘defective’ power supply agreements

by Myrna Velasco – September 19, 2016 from Manila Bulletin Eleven power supply agreements (PSAs) were junked by the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) for having ‘legally defective’ contractual terms. The supply deals established to have been flawed were that of the Biliran […]
September 20, 2016

DOE eyes completion of power assets privatization in 3 years

by Myrna Velasco – September 19, 2016 from Manila Bulletin The energy policy agenda of the Duterte administration intends to speed up the privatization of the remaining assets of the National Power Corporation (NPC) – with it eyed for completion in the […]