October 29, 2016

890 MW of solar to push FIT-All rate to P0.27/kwh

By Myrna M. Velasco – October 27, 2016, 10:01 PM from Manila Bulletin The country’s “overbuild” of solar farms will correspondingly punish Filipino consumers’ pockets with feed-in-tariff allowance (FIT-All) inflating to as high as R0.27 per kilowatt hour (kwh). That had […]
October 26, 2016

Mindanao’s base load power investments on halt for 7-10 years

by Myrna Velasco – October 25, 2016 from Manila Bulletin Investments for base load power plants in Mindanao will be on standstill for the next 7-10 years given the overcapacity situation that the grid will be putting up with in […]
October 25, 2016

Ayala power firm still bets on coal as base-load fuel

by Lenie Lectura – October 23, 2016 from Business Mirror COAL would still be the country’s main source of base-load energy for the next two decades, an official of AC Energy Holdings Inc. said, but added that there is a […]
October 22, 2016

Senate energy panel chairman cool to PEMC transformation into IMO

by Lenie Lectura – October 20, 2016 from Business Mirror The chairman of the Senate Committee on Energy said on Thursday there is no need to rush the implementation of a provision of the Electric Power Industry Reform Act (Epira) […]