January 5, 2020

Wishlist 2020: No brownouts and end of energy turf wars

By MYRNA M. VELASCO – January 4, 2020, 10:00 PM from Manila Bulletin The year 2019 glaringly showed an era of wrong energy forecasts especially during the summer months, indecisions, disagreements and globe-trotting for energy officials while the domestic energy […]
November 29, 2019

GenCos told to submit 3-year plan on power facility outages

By Myrna M. Velasco – November 28, 2019, 10:00 PM from Manila Bulletin The country’s power generation companies (GenCos) had been directed to submit their three-year power plant outage schedules to prevent a precarious scenario of rotating brownouts especially during […]
October 10, 2019

DOE-ERC policy tug-of-war snags approval of Meralco PSAs

By Myrna M. Velasco – October 9, 2019, 10:00 PM from Manila Bulletin Power utility giant Manila Electric Company (Meralco) and its counter-party generation companies (GenCos) in the recently signed power supply agreements (PSAs) are ready to file their joint […]
September 25, 2019

ERC flags Meralco on ‘incomplete requirements’ on power plant operations

By Myrna M. Velasco – September 24, 2019, 10:00 PM from Manila Bulletin The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) has flagged Manila Electric Company (Meralco) that still has “incomplete submissions” on its application for certificate of compliance (COC) for the targeted […]