December 11, 2017

Coal tax to hit power customers

By Alena Mae S. Flores – December 10, 2017 at 09:30 pm from manilastandard.net Customers of Manila Electric Co. will experience higher generation charges of P0.0455 per kilowatt-hour, once the government slaps a P300 excise tax on every metric ton of coal. Meralco […]
December 11, 2017

Gov’t decision due this week on BNPP

By Myrna M. Velasco – December 9, 2017, 10:00 PM from Manila Bulletin Next week will be ‘judgment day’ for the idled Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP)  – if it will be time for the government to finally ‘bury it into […]
December 8, 2017

Tokyo Gas affirms LNG partnership talks with First Gen

By Myrna M. Velasco – December 7, 2017, 10:00 PM from Manila Bulletin Lisbon, Portugal – Partnership talks with Filipino firm First Gen Corporation had been affirmed by Tokyo Gas Co. Ltd. on planned liquefied natural gas (LNG) investments in the […]
December 8, 2017

Malampaya to last 10 more years

By Alena Mae S. Flores – December 07, 2017 at 09:20 pm from manilastandard.net The Malampaya natural gas field in northwest Palawan, which supplies fuel to three major power plants in Batangas, is expected to continue producing for the next 10 years, an […]