June 7, 2021

Regulator tags giant power firms as ‘brownout culprits’

By Myrna M. Velasco – June 7, 2021, 6:00 AM from Manila Bulletin ERC hints ‘pricing play’ The country’s giant power firms have been tagged as the culprits in last week’s rotational brownouts with “forced outages’ of their power plants […]
June 7, 2021

MinDA thumbs down sale of Mindanao power facility

BY LENIE LECTURA – JUNE 7, 2021 from Business Mirror THE Mindanao Development Authority (MinDA) is opposing the privatization of the Agus-Pulangi Hydroelectric Complex (APHC), as the hydropower plants will ensure the stable supply of electricity in Mindanao. “MinDA’s position […]
June 5, 2021

DoE says no more brownouts expected, investigating outages

By Angelica Y. Yang with Bianca Angelica D. Añago – June 3, 2021 | 8:36 pm from Business World PHILSTAR THE Department of Energy (DoE) said Thursday that the Luzon grid has returned to normal and that it expects no […]
June 3, 2021

ERC orders 17 GenCos to explain

By Myrna M. Velasco – June 2, 2021, 4:16 PM from Manila Bulletin Breach of ‘outage allowance’ The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) had served summons to at least 17 power generation companies (GenCos) “to explain the unplanned outages that breached […]