March 20, 2017

Coal plants to boost PHL power supply

By Lenie Lectura – March 19, 2017 from Business Mirror The Philippines is assured of 5,000 megawatts (MW) of new power-generation capacity between this year and 2020, with coal power plants still dominating the power mix. In the 2017-2020 list […]
March 17, 2017

Solons say midnight ERC deals allow Meralco to lock down consumers for 25 years

from Business Mirror March 16, 2017 Congressmen today assailed the alleged sweetheart deals engineered by officials of the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) to favor power distributor Meralco that would allow the latter to lock down consumers in its franchise areas […]
March 11, 2017

Energy players to review existing deals caused by plant shutdowns

By Lenie Lectura – March 9, 2017 from Business Mirror POWER-INDUSTRY stakeholders will review existing contracts entered into among gas suppliers, power producers and distribution utilities to find out ways on how not to pass on to consumers the incremental cost brought about […]
March 10, 2017

194 big customers of Meralco switch power suppliers

by Myrna M. Velasco – March 9, 2017, 10:00 PM from Manila Bulletin Of the 431 contestable customers or classified big-ticket customers of Manila Electric Company (Meralco), about 194 had already exercised their freedom to switch to their preferred retail electricity […]