March 7, 2017

Dreaming Realistic Options to Inter-Island Power Grid Links – Archipelagic Power Strategy for an Archipelagic Country

David Celestra Tan, MSK 5 March 2017 The Philippines has 7,017 islands with 20 major ones. Luzon, Most of Visayas, and soon Mindanao are connected to the main grid. Big islands like Palawan, Mindoro, Masbate, Marinduque, Romblon, Catanduanes, Bantayan Island, […]
February 25, 2017

DOE to relax policy on 750-kw threshold for RCOA

By Myrna M. Velasco – February 24, 2017, 10:00 PM br>from Manila Bulletin The Department of Energy (DOE) is set to issue revised rules that will relax terms and conditions on the switching of customers to retail competition and open access […]
January 28, 2017

Malampaya shutdown starts today

By Lenie Lectura – January 28, 2017 from Business Mirror Power-industry stakeholders have finalized contingency plans that would address a possible supply-deficiency scenario during the 20-day shutdown of the Malampaya gas facility, which supplies 40 percent of the Manila Electric Co.’s (Meralco) requirement, […]
January 4, 2017

Meralco’s Customer Mix and the DOE’s Flexible Energy Mix

David Celestra Tan, MSK 26 December 2016 The Federation of the Philippine Industries for its part jumped on the DOE’s “flexible energy mix strategy” exclaiming “this technology-neutral power mix could “indeed promote a more competitive market and eventually lower the […]