February 15, 2020

ERC backpedals on WESM secondary cap’s reduction

By MYRNA M. VELASCO – February 14, 2020, 10:00 PM from Manila Bulletin The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) is backpedaling on proposals to lower the secondary cap of traded capacity in the Wholesale Electricity Spot Market (WESM), which should have […]
February 6, 2020

ERC readies contingencies

Tight power supply seen   By MYRNA M. VELASCO – February 5, 2020, 10:00 PM from Manila Bulletin With highly probable rolling brownouts hitting Luzon grid as early as March with ensuing price spikes, the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) bared […]
February 5, 2020

ERC to tap prosecutors to litigate ‘collusion’ case vs power players

By Myrna M. Velasco – February 4, 2020, 10:00 PM from Manila Bulletin The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) will be tapping external prosecutors who will litigate the seven-year old collusion case hurled against power industry players when there had been […]
January 24, 2020

Power price spikes, brownouts seen likely

By MYRNA M. VELASCO – January 23, 2020, 10:00 PM from Manila Bulletin In this year’s summer months, Filipino consumers are being warned this early that they will be assaulted anew with double whammy of electricity price spikes and power […]