June 7, 2021

Regulator tags giant power firms as ‘brownout culprits’

By Myrna M. Velasco – June 7, 2021, 6:00 AM from Manila Bulletin ERC hints ‘pricing play’ The country’s giant power firms have been tagged as the culprits in last week’s rotational brownouts with “forced outages’ of their power plants […]
June 3, 2021

ERC orders 17 GenCos to explain

By Myrna M. Velasco – June 2, 2021, 4:16 PM from Manila Bulletin Breach of ‘outage allowance’ The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) had served summons to at least 17 power generation companies (GenCos) “to explain the unplanned outages that breached […]
May 26, 2021

Approval of ASPAs seen boosting power reserves of Mindanao

BY LENIE LECTURA – MAY 26, 2021 from Business Mirror Mindanao is assured of additional power reserves following the Energy Regulatory Commission’s (ERC) approval of Ancillary Services Procurement Agreements (ASPAs) in the first quarter. “These ASPAs are necessary to support […]
May 26, 2021

ERC sets hearings on P17.8-B NGCP capex

By Myrna M. Velasco – May 25, 2021, 3:37 PM from Manila Bulletin The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) has set a series of public hearings on the P17.815 billion worth of batch 2 capital expenditure (capex) projects of transmission firm […]