Power News

June 28, 2018

NGCP to extend transmission lines to meet peak power demand in 2040

By BusinessMirror – June 27, 2018 THE National Grid Corp. of the Philippines (NGCP) plans to increase the length of its total transmission line to 35,312 circuit kilometers (ckm) and its total substation capacity to 88,036 megavolt-amperes (MVA) in a […]
June 27, 2018

Oriental Energy putting up Aklan hydropower project

By Myrna M. Velasco – June 26, 2018, 10:00 PM from Manila Bulletin Oriental Energy and Power Generation Corporation will be putting up the 18-megawatt Timbaban hydropower project to be sited in Madalag, Aklan in the Visayas grid, according to […]
June 27, 2018

2 power-sector execs: PSE not likely to manage WESM

By Lenie Lectura – June 26, 2018 from Business Mirror TWO officials in the power sector dismissed the possibility of the Philippine Stock Exchange’s (PSE) operating the Wholesale Electricity Spot Market (WESM), the country’s trading floor of electricity. Newly appointed […]
June 26, 2018

PNOC selling unused Malampaya gas

By Jordeene Sheex Lagare – June 25, 2018 from The Manila Times UNUSED gas from the Malampaya Deepwater Gas-to-Power plant in offshore Palawan province is now being auctioned off, the Philippine National Oil Co. (PNOC) said. In a recent advisory, […]
June 26, 2018

Juan elected president of WESM’s independent market operator

By Myrna M. Velasco – June 25, 2018, 10:00 PM from Manila Bulletin In the election that was held on Monday, former Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) Executive Director Francis Saturnino C. Juan was selected as president of the newly incorporated […]
June 25, 2018

WESM’s IEMO president to be known today

By Myrna M. Velasco – June 24, 2018, 10:00 PM from Manila Bulletin The operations of the Wholesale Electricity Spot Market (WESM) will have its historical turning point today, June 25, with the scheduled election of the first president of […]
June 25, 2018

LNG terminal project winner hinges on financial closing – DOE

By Myrna M. Velasco – June 23, 2018, 10:00 PM from Manila Bulletin The winning investor-group that shall build the country’s 5.0 million metric tons per annum (mtpa) liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal project rests primarily on when that […]
June 25, 2018

ERC clears deal of Solar, Meralco

By Alena Mae S. Flores – June 24, 2018 at 07:38 pm from manilastandard.net The Energy Regulatory Commission provisionally approved the power supply agreement application of Manila Electric Co. with Solar Philippines Tarlac Corp. for up to 85 megawatts at […]
June 23, 2018

EU dangles diesel-solar hybrid system for PH ‘unviable areas’

By Myrna M.Velasco – June 22, 2018, 10:48 PM from Manila Bulletin To give much-needed shot in the arm for the energy access of far-flung as well as the so-called ‘unviable areas’ in the Philippines, the European Union (EU) is […]
June 23, 2018

PNOC begins auction of Malampaya’s gas reserves

By Alena Mae S. Flores – June 21, 2018 at 07:00 pm from manilastandard.net State-run Philippine National Oil Co. has issued an invitation to bid for the sale of its banked gas from the Malampaya gas project in northwest Palawan. […]