Power News

July 21, 2017

Plant shutdowns to cut Luzon grid’s July-September power supply by 2,000 MW

By Lenie Lectura – July 20, 2017 from Business Mirror ABOUT 2,650 megawatts (MW) of power-generating capacity will be shaved off from the Luzon grid in the July-to-September period, owing to a number of power plants that are scheduled to go offline. The […]
July 21, 2017

DOE approves grid-impact study for five more power projects

By Lenie Lectura – July 20, 2017 from Business Mirror THE Department of Energy (DOE) has cleared five power projects for the conduct of a grid-impact study (GIS). A clearance for the conduct of GIS is necessary for a power firm before it […]
July 20, 2017

AC Energy eyes Vietnam project

By Lenie Lectura – July 19, 2017 from Business Mirror AC Energy Holdings Inc., the power arm of conglomerate Ayala Corp., is actively pursuing potential investments in renewable energy (RE) projects in  Vietnam. AC Energy President and CEO John Eric Francia said on […]
July 20, 2017

DOE’s ‘Causers Pay Policy Program’ to start within the year

By Lenie Lectura – July 19, 2017 from Business Mirror The Department of Energy (DOE) will no longer allow “negligent and incompetent” power-industry players to pass on to consumers the additional costs incurred in sourcing higher priced electricity when a power outage occurs. […]
July 19, 2017

EDC says electricity output in Leyte up

by Alena Mae S. Flores – July 18, 2017 at 08:16 pm from Manila Standard Today Geothermal energy leader Energy Development Corp. has restored its marshaling station in Leyte, enabling the delivery of an aggregate 200 megawatts from the Malitbog […]
July 19, 2017

Duterte seeks new guidelines on ECCs for energy projects

By Myrna M. Velasco – July 17, 2017, 10:00 PM from Manila Bulletin President Rodrigo R. Duterte is requiring the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) to submit new guidelines on the approval and issuance of environmental compliance certificates (ECCs) […]
July 17, 2017

6 firms eye hydropower projects in Laguna Lake

By Lenie Lectura – July 16, 2017 from Business Mirror The Department of Energy has received interests from six firms that want to put up pumped storage hydropower projects in Laguna. Mario Marasigan, director of Renewable Energy Management Bureau, said Laguna de Bay […]
July 17, 2017

Energy sector seen attracting more investments

By Lenie Lectura – July 16, 2017 from Business Mirror The chairman of the Senate Committee on Energy is optimistic that more investors will be encouraged to closely look at the Philippine energy market as the government jump-starts the implementation of vital reforms […]
July 17, 2017

NREB sets flexibility in RE capacity purchase

By Myrna M. Velasco – July 15, 2017, 10:00 PM from Manila Bulletin The National Renewable Energy Board (NREB) is injecting some flexibility in the incremental purchase of renewable energy (RE) capacity that off-taker distribution utilities would have to adhere to […]
July 17, 2017

FIT payments to RE developers still short by P8.15 billion by July

By Myrna M. Velasco –  July 15, 2017, 10:00 PM from Manila Bulletin Payments of feed-in-tariff (FIT) incentives to renewable energy (RE) developers remain short by P8.15 billion as of July this year, fund administrator of National Transmission Corporation (TransCo) has […]