October 13, 2020

‘Coal plants to boost Luzon grid capacity’

By Lenie Lectura – October 12, 2020 from Business Mirror Nearly 6,000 megawatts (MW) of total power generation capacity would be added to the Luzon grid until 2025, the Department of Energy (DOE) said. A report released Monday showed that […]
October 2, 2020

AC Energy names contractor for Australia project

By Lenie Lectura – October 1, 2020 from Business Mirror UPC\AC Australia, a joint venture between UPC Renewables and AC Energy, has tapped Elecnor Australia as the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractor for the first stage of the 720megawatt […]
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 […]