Power News

August 25, 2020

Nuke energy will ‘require subsidies,’ nixed for PHL mix

By Lenie Lectura – August 25, 2020 from Business Mirror File photo: Bataan Nuclear Power Plant ENERGY experts on Monday thumbed down the possibility of injecting nuclear energy into the country’s energy mix, saying it is unviable and unprofitable. Sara […]
August 25, 2020

‘Iloilo City needs modern power distribution system’

By Lenie Lectura – August 25, 2020 from Business Mirror The Iloilo Economic Development Foundation (ILEDF) said Monday that the lack of a stable power supply in the past years has lured away potential investors. ILEDF Executive Director Francis Gentoral […]
August 25, 2020

Constitutional limit hinders FDIs in RE – Gatchalian

By Myrna M. Velasco – August 24, 2020, 5:00 AM from Manila Bulletin The flow of foreign direct investments (FDIs) in the country’s renewable energy (RE) sector is getting restrained because of the Constitutional limitations set forth in the exploitation, […]
August 24, 2020

SMC unit puts up energy storage systems

By Lenie Lectura – August 24, 2020 from Business Mirror SMC Global Power Holdings Corp., a wholly-owned subsidiary of conglomerate San Miguel Corp. (SMC), is investing heavily in battery energy storage systems (BESS), which store energy to be used at […]
August 24, 2020

Coal, solar technologies dominate new power projects

By Myrna M. Velasco – August 24, 2020, 5:00 AM from Manila Bulletin It’s the clean-versus-dirty fuel technology labels that will wrestle with each other in the indicative power projects of the country, as coal and solar reign in the […]
August 22, 2020

SC urged to consider consumers’ plight in power franchise case

August 22, 2020 – 12:00am from The Philippine Star MANILA, Philippines — Multisectoral groups in Iloilo City have appealed to the Supreme Court to take into consideration the plight of the 65,000 customers who will be directly impacted by its […]
August 21, 2020

SMC unit taps AG&P for LNG project

By Lenie Lectura – August 21, 2020 from Business Mirror SMC Global Power Holdings Corp., a wholly-owned subsidiary of conglomerate San Miguel Corp. (SMC), is partnering with Atlantic Gulf & Pacific (AG&P) for its planned LNG (liquefied natural gas) project […]
August 21, 2020

Retail customers tearing down monopoly in power industry – ERC

By Myrna M. Velasco – August 20, 2020, 2:09 PM from Manila Bulletin As the consumers who can already exercise their “power of choice” or those contracting directly their electricity service from preferred suppliers already corner a significant pie of […]
August 20, 2020

AC Energy to build solar plants in Pampanga, Zambales

By Lenie Lectura – August 20, 2020 from Business Mirror AC Energy Philippines Inc. (ACEN) announced two new solar power projects worth P6.2 billion in Central Luzon with an aggregate capacity of up to 150 megawatts (MW). The first project […]
August 20, 2020

SPC Power net income dips 27.6% to P436.4 M

By Myrna M. Velasco – August 20, 2020, 6:30 AM from Manila Bulletin With knocked out power demand in recent months because of the economic torment of the pandemic, the income of SPC Power Corporation skidded 27.6-percent to P436.4 million […]