February 7, 2017

Sual plant suffers outage, but cloudy weather saves Luzon grid

by Myrna M. Velasco – February 6, 2017, 10:00 PM from Manila Bulletin The 600-megawatt generating unit 1 of the Sual coal-fired power facility suffered forced outage early morning on Monday (February 6), but the system held without any declaration of […]
February 6, 2017

Probe on solar subsidies pushed

By Myrna M. Velasco – February 5, 2017, 10:00 PM from Manila Bulletin The chairman of the Senate Committee on Energy wants an extensive investigation on the alleged improprieties committed in the validation and award of feed-in-tariff (FIT) subsidies in some […]
February 6, 2017

Mandatory RCOA is on this month

By Myrna M. Velasco – February 5, 2017, 10:01 PM from Manila Bulletin The long-wished for “freedom of choice” will finally put electricity consumers at the head of the table when it comes to their preferred power supply contracting befitting their […]
February 1, 2017

DOE closely monitoring power use of govt offices

By Lenie Lectura – January 31, 2017 from Business Mirror THE Department of Energy (DOE) is requiring 140 government entities to submit their electricity consumption report from 2015 to 2016. “We are closely monitoring their energy consumption so that we can provide strategies to […]