November 13, 2017

Govt issues draft policies on power-market operator

By Lenie Lectura – November 13, 2017 From Business Mirror THE country’s trading floor for buying and selling electricity would be led by an independent market operator (IMO) whose members do not have any ties with the government and power-industry participants. This was […]
November 10, 2017

Pagbilao gas-fired plant builder gets ERC approval

By Lenie Lectura – November 9, 2017 from Business Mirror ENERGY World Power Operations Philippines Inc. (Ewpopi), a wholly owned subsidiary of Energy World Corp. Ltd., has secured the go-ahead of the regulators to develop a transmission facility that will connect its […]
November 8, 2017

DOE crafts incentives for RE installations in off-grid islands

By Myrna M. Velasco – November 7, 2017, 10:00 PM from Manila Bulletin The Department of Energy (DOE) is working on a formula that will incentivize deployments of renewable energy (RE) technologies along off-grid domains via the renewable portfolio standards (RPS) […]
November 6, 2017

DOE to review pass-on power charges

By Lenie Lectura -November 6, 2017 from Business Mirror A recent decision of the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) that allowed an electric cooperative (EC) to pass on to its customers P232 million worth of unpaid power fees owed to a power supplier […]