December 7, 2020

New RE projects to increase electricity bills

By Myrna M. Velasco – December 7, 2020, 6:30 AM from Manila Bulletin While renewable energy (RE) developers are brandishing that their technologies are already the cheapest in the market, the National Renewable Energy Board (NREB) ironically dropped the bomb […]
December 2, 2020

DOE budget hiked for studies on ‘transition’ technologies

By Myrna M. Velasco – December 2, 2020, 6:00 AM from Manila Bulletin The 2021 budget of the Department of Energy (DOE) has been shored up so it will have leverage to fund studies on technologies that will rev up […]
December 1, 2020

CSP policy revision sets terms on ‘unsolicited proposal’ for power supply deals

By Myrna M. Velasco – December 1, 2020, 6:00 AM from Manila Bulletin The proposed revisions in the competitive selection process (CSP) for power supply agreements (PSAs) set the framework for unsolicited proposals or tenders that distribution utilities (DUs) may […]
December 1, 2020

Government seeks comments on draft CSP rules

By Lenie Lectura – November 30, 2020 from Business Mirror The Department of Energy (DOE) is soliciting comments from industry stakeholders on a draft circular (DC) that seeks to amend some provisions of the Competitive Selection Process (CSP) policy. “The […]