April 25, 2019

Wake Up Calls For All of Us On Power Yellow Alerts…Whose Job is it Anyway?

David Celestra Tan, MSK 23 April 2019 The Yellow and Red alerts of power shortages should wake up all of us towards the reality that a power crisis can be upon us and can have devastating impact our economic boom […]
April 24, 2019

ZAMCELCO investor wants to junk PSA with Alcantara firm

By Myrna M. Velasco – April 23, 2019, 10:00 PM from Manila Bulletin The Romero-led private investor in Zamboanga City Electric Cooperative Inc. (ZAMCELCO) has formally asked the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) to have its power supply agreement (PSA) with […]
April 17, 2019

Yellow and Red Power Alert, Things to Ponder, The Outdated and Onerous Genco Contracts, and Permanent Solutions (Part 2)

Part 2 of 2   4. The Onerous Guaranteed Payments for Downtimes in the PSA in Main Grid These power plants will predictably blame technical reasons for the outages. These are however the “effects” and not the “root causes”. It […]
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 […]