January 24, 2018

WESM to get independent operator soon

By Alena Mae S. Flores – January 22, 2018 at 06:31 pm from manilastandard.net The Energy Department vowed to install an independent market operator for the wholesale electricity spot market, the country’s trading floor of electricity, by June. “By February… […]
January 23, 2018

DOE examines linkage of power markets to stock exchanges

By Myrna M. Velasco – January 22, 2018, 10:00 PM from Manila Bulletin Before rendering any decision to the proposal of the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE) to take over the operations of the Wholesale Electricity Spot Market (WESM), Energy Secretary […]
January 23, 2018

DOE to lodge ‘options’ to Palace for faster resolution of ERC mess

By Myrna M. Velasco – January 22, 2018, 10:01 PM from Manila Bulletin Even without imprimatur from Malacanang, the Department of Energy (DOE) has taken upon itself to technically exercise ‘regulatory powers” over the restructured electricity sector by giving go-signal […]
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 […]