March 14, 2017

Global solar cost steeply declining; good news to PH

by Myrna M. Velasco – March 13, 2017, 10:00 PM from Manila Bulletin Houston, Texas – The global cost of solar technology on generation pricing perspective already tailed off steeply to $0.03 per kilowatt hour (kwh); and storage costs are also […]
March 8, 2017

ERC cuts FiT rates for hydro and biomass projects

By Lenie Lectura – March 7, 2017 from Business Mirror The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) has lowered the Feed-in-Tariff (FiT) rates for hydro and biomass power projects that are scheduled for commercial operations this year. In a two-page resolution signed by the ERC […]
March 1, 2017

Reverse auction set as alternative in evaluating RE investments

By Myrna M. Velasco – February 27, 2017, 10:04 PM from Manila Bulletin With feed-in-tariff (FIT) already at its dead end for wind and solar technologies, the proposal for the next round of investments on this technology would be to do […]
February 21, 2017

Viewpoint: Is it goodbye ‘FIT’… and will market forces prevail? (Solar’s FIT mess)

By Myrna M. Velasco – February 10, 2017, 10:00 PM from Manila Bulletin (Second Part) At this point when the failure of the feed-in-tariff (FIT) system is becoming evident, energy sector players and policymakers are now exploring “new business” models to […]