June 9, 2021

DOE seeks Meralco pricing justification on emergency PSA

By Myrna M. Velasco – June 8, 2021, 3:32 PM from Manila Bulletin The Department of Energy (DOE) has notified Manila Electric Company (Meralco) for the utility firm to explain the ‘pricing justification’ of its interim power supply agreement (IPSA) […]
June 8, 2021

First Gen taps Svitzer for LNG project

BY LENIE LECTURA – JUNE 8, 2021 from Business Mirror File photo: First Gen’s natural gas power plants in Batangas First Gen Corp. has tapped an affiliate of the Maersk Group to tow its floating storage regasification unit (FSRU) to […]
June 8, 2021

Solar power pushed as solution to outages

By Jordeene B. Lagare – June 8, 2021 from The Manila Times Solar power plants can augment the country’s power supply, especially during times when demand for electricity is at its highest. In a virtual briefing, Institute for Climate and […]
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 […]