August 11, 2022

DOE: PHL has enough power reserves for next 6 months

BY BUTCH FERNANDEZ – AUGUST 10, 2022 from Business Mirror Raphael P.M. Lotilla UNDER questioning at a Senate Energy Committee hearing Wednesday, Department of Energy (DOE) officials allayed apprehensions over looming brownouts when asked about the power outlook for the […]
January 19, 2021

Meralco to relax disconnection rule, but Hontiveros wants ‘surcharges’ reviewed

By Butch Fernandez – January 19, 2021 from Business Mirror Power lines run beside a sign for the Manila Electric Co. (Meralco) Makati branch in Manila, the Philippines, on Monday, March 23, 2009. Manila Electric Co. is the largest Philippine […]
November 14, 2016

‘Government should tap safer energy sources in West Philippine Sea’

By Butch Fernandez & Lenie Lectura – November 13, 2016 from Business Mirror Instead of spending $1 billion to revive the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP), the chairman of the Senate Committee on Energy urged the government to use money to […]