February 17, 2017

SC awards Naga plant to Aboitiz Power

by Alena Mae S. Flores – February 15, 2017 at 08:06 pm from Manila Standard Today The Supreme Court reinstated the notice of award to Aboitiz Power Corp.’s subsidiary Therma Power Visayas Inc. for the 153.1-megawatt Naga power plant complex in Naga, Cebu. […]
February 17, 2017

Malampaya resumes natural-gas delivery

By Lenie Lectura – February 16, 2017 from Business Mirror The 20-day maintenance shutdown of the Malampaya natural-gas facility in Palawan concluded on Thursday, and had resumed  providing gas to the gas plants that provide an aggregate capacity of more than […]
February 17, 2017

‘No need to amend Epira’

By Lenie Lectura – February 16, 2017 from Business Mirror Sixteen years since the Electric Power Industry Reform Act of 2001 (Epira) was enacted into law, the Department of Energy (DOE) strongly believes that the law does not need to be […]
February 16, 2017

DOE sees rising power demand for Mindanao from 2021 to 2030

By Lenie Lectura – February 15, 2017 from Business Mirror The Department of Energy (DOE) on Wednesday said Mindanao would need a total of 3,650 megawatts (MW) of additional power-generating capacity by 2021 to 2030. Based on the agency’s latest data […]