May 5, 2019

DOE admits only one power plant inspected out of 22 forced outages

By Myrna M. Velasco – May 4, 2019, 10:00 PM from Manila Bulletin Despite its mandate under the Electric Power Industry Reform Act (EPIRA) that it shall ensure reliable, quality and sufficient power supply for the country, the Department of […]
May 1, 2019

SC asked to declare directive on Meralco bill deposit illegal

By Kristine Joy Patag – April 30, 2019 from The Philippine Star MANILA, Philippines — The Makabayan bloc on Tuesday challenged the legality of an Energy Regulatory Commission directive that allowed Meralco to collect bill deposits before the Supreme Court. […]
April 11, 2019

ERC gives NGCP go-ahead to build La Trinidad line project

By Lenie Lectura – April 11, 2019 from Business Mirror THE Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) has approved the application of the National Grid Corp. of the Philippines (NGCP) to proceed with its P644-million La Trinidad-Calot 69-kV line project. “The NGCP’s […]
April 5, 2019

Rethinking the ERC plan to shift to “fixed price”generation rates…And the “30% of Project Cost” Exemption from CSP!!

David Celestra Tan, MSK 2 April 2019 The new ERC has been hard at work on a new guideline or template for the contracting of power generation supply agreements. Without exaggeration this guideline would be one of the big signals to […]