February 14, 2017

Palawan SPUG plants get major boost from NPC

By Lenie Lectura – February 13, 2017 from Business Mirror The National Power Corp. (Napocor) will energize eight new Small Power Utilities Group (SPUG) power plants that will supply electricity to around 6,000 households in Palawan. In a memorandum of agreement […]
February 13, 2017

PSALM debt payments hit P84.86B in 2016

By Lenie Lectura – February 12, 2017 from Business Mirror The Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management Corp. (PSALM) said it has paid off P84.86 billion worth of debts, bringing down the state firm’s obligations to P506.34 billion. “Payments made in […]
February 13, 2017

Emission results of SBC Global Power’s Bataan plant ‘way below’ govt, WB standard limits

By Lenie Lectura – February 12, 2017 from Business Mirror THE first 150-megawatt (MW) unit of SMC Global Power’s coal power plant in Limay, Bataan, yielded emission results that were “way, way below” government and World Bank standard limits. The power-generation subsidiary of […]
February 10, 2017

Meralco wants to collect extra P0.30/kWh from March to May

By Lenie Lectura – February 9, 2017 from Business Mirror THE Manila Electric Co. (Meralco) proposed to collect from its customers an additional P0.30 per kilowatt-hour (kWh) in generation charge for three months starting in March. Meralco said it wants to recoup some […]