January 4, 2019

Energy recommends lifting of ban on West Philippine Sea exploration

By Alena Mae S. Flores – January 03, 2019 at 07:35 pm from manilastandard.net The Energy Department officially recommended to the Department of Foreign Affairs the lifting of the moratorium on oil and gas exploration in the West Philippine Sea […]
January 3, 2019

SMC-Meralco consortium investing P99b in coal plant

By Alena Mae S. Flores – January 02, 2019 at 07:50 pm from manilastandard.net The joint venture of SMC Global Power Holding Corp. and Meralco PowerGen Corp. plans to spend P99 billion to put up a 1,200-megawatt coal project in […]
January 2, 2019

Transco agrees to settle P2-b debt with renewable power plants

By Alena Mae S. Flores – January 01, 2019 at 08:40 pm from manilastandard.net State-run National Transmission Corp. said it will pay more than P2 billion worth of feed-in tariffs to renewable energy developers this month. “We have reduced significantly […]
January 1, 2019

NGCP fixes transmission lines to restore power supply in Visayas

By Alena Mae S. Flores – December 31, 2018 from manilastandard.net Grid operator National Grid Corp. of the Philippines said Monday it successfully completed the restoration of lines affected by tropical depression Usman in the Visayas. “Normalization of the Visayas […]