May 20, 2018

PSALM suspends Malaya plant sale

By Myrna M. Velasco – May 19, 2018, 10:00 PM from Manila Bulletin The board of Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management Corporation (PSALM) in its last meeting has decided to temporarily suspend “privatization plans” for the 650-megawatt Malaya thermal […]
April 13, 2018

DOE may snatch ERC’s ‘licensing role’ on retail power suppliers

By Myrna M. Velasco – April 12, 2018, 10:01 PM from Manila Bulletin With the never-ending dilemmas that the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) had been getting enmeshed with, the Department of Energy (DOE) is now intending to take hold of […]
April 12, 2018

DOE likely to accede to scrapping of RE perks under TRAIN-2

By Myrna M. Velasco – Updated April 11, 2018, 10:08 PM from Manila Bulletin The Department of Energy (DOE) will likely throw its support to the proposal to scrap the value-added tax (VAT) zero rating incentives for renewable energy (RE) […]
April 10, 2018

PH power consumption up nearly 4% last year

By Jordeene Sheex Lagare – April 9, 2018 from The Manila Times Electricity consumption in the Philippines increased to 94,370 gigawatt hours (GWh) in 2017, the Department of Energy (DoE) said. In its 2017 Power Statistics report, DoE said the […]