January 23, 2018

Govt eases trading rules of WESM

By Alena Mae S. Flores – January 22, 2018 at 06:15 pm from manilastandard.net The Energy Department and Philippine Electricity Market Corp., operator of the Wholesale Electricity Spot Market, have agreed to allow power generation companies with expired certificates of […]
January 21, 2018

ERC wants in-house ad interim commissioners

By Myrna M. Velasco – January 20, 2018, 10:01 PM from Manila Bulletin The tug-of-war as to who will sit as officer-in-charge Commissioners of the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) continues, as executives of the agency bat for appointments of insiders. […]
January 20, 2018

DOE orders scrutiny of coal contracts of power generators

By Myrna M. Velasco – January 19, 2018, 10:01 PM from Manila Bulletin The Department of Energy (DOE) indicated that it intends to scrutinize the coal contracts of power producers and establish if there are provisions mandating pass on of […]
January 18, 2018

HERE WE GO AGAIN: THE OLD GAME OF THREATENING BROWNOUTS TO OVERPOWER CONSUMERS AND GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS

David Celestra Tan, MSK 17 January 2018 When the widespread power blackouts hit the country in early 1990’s the government and consumers gave in to all the juicy and overpriced contracts and waived environmental compliances.  Thus was born the “power […]