April 18, 2017

More power plants now on-line (DOE admits summer price hikes)

By Myrna M. Velasco – April 17, 2017, 10:00 PM from Manila Bulletin The Department of Energy (DOE) has admitted that summer months will likely drive up electricity rates for power consumers, but earlier forecasts of continued ‘yellow alerts’ had been […]
April 17, 2017

Fuel, power and cash

By Lenie Lectura –  April 16, 2017 from Business Mirror THE government’s share from the energy-resource development fund, commonly known as the Malampaya fund, reached P13.43 billion in 2016, slightly lower than the P14.32 billion recorded a year earlier. Based on […]
April 17, 2017

DOE chief reinforcing ‘nuclear power dream’

By Myrna M. Velasco – April 12, 2017, 10:01 PM from Manila Bulletin The Department of Energy’s (DOE) fascination with its “nuclear power dream” is not fading with time, as Secretary Alfonso G. Cusi re-stated recently the weekend the development […]
April 1, 2017

DOE: Malampaya fund can be used to pay NPC debts

By  Lenie Lectura – April 1, 2017 from Business Mirror The Department of Energy (DOE) strongly  urged lawmakers to pass a legislation that will allow the government to tap the Malampaya fund in paying the stranded debts of the National Power Corp. (NPC). […]