April 14, 2018

Co-ops oppose DoE move to allow private sector in rural electrification

By Alena Mae S. Flores – April 13, 2018 at 08:00 pm from manilastandard.net Electric cooperatives have expressed concern over the move of the Energy Department to allow private investors to go into rural electrification. Leaders of several electric cooperative […]
March 13, 2018

Duterte: Firms must join rural electrification drive

By Jordeene Sheex Lagare – March 13, 2018 from The Manila Times President Rodrigo Duterte has instructed the Department of Energy (DoE) and the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) to allow the private sector to participate in the complete electrification of […]
March 8, 2018

P750-M emergency fund for co-ops OKd

By Jordeene Sheex Lagare – March 8, 2018 from The Manila Times The bicameral conference committee on energy reconciled on Wednesday conflicting provisions of a bill seeking to provide electric cooperatives (ECs) a P750-million emergency and resiliency fund. During a […]
January 8, 2018

DUs asked to submit system loss, interruptions’ reports

By Myrna M. Velasco – January 7, 2018, 10:00 PM from Manila Bulletin The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) has been mandating power distribution utilities (DUs) and electric cooperatives (ECs) to submit reports on their updated system loss and interruption reports […]