October 10, 2024

Philippines’ dependency on coal not cheap—power exec

By inquirer.net – 12:45 PM October 09, 2024 Coal power plant. INQUIRER STOCK PHOTO MANILA — An official of Lopez-led First Gen Corp., the country’s leading clean energy provider, said in a recent forum that the country cannot continue to […]
August 27, 2024

First Gen eyeing income boost this year with add’l revenues from geothermal assets

BY Myrna M. Velasco – Aug 26, 2024 02:11 PM from Manila Bulletin At a glance The latest project of its subsidiary Energy Development Corporation (EDC) that reached commercial operations in July had been its 28.9MW Palayan binary geothermal facility […]
July 5, 2024

Conglomerates join bidding for Meralco’s 600 MW supply

By Alena Mae S. Flores – July 4, 2024, 8:00 pm from manilastandard.net Local conglomerates and a Thai-led power firm joined the pre-bid conference for the competitive selection process (CSP) or bidding for 600 megawatts (MW) of baseload supply intended […]
March 6, 2023

No Malampaya gas commitment on planned ‘fuel swap’ – Meralco

By Myrna M. Velasco – March 5, 2023, 8:34 PM from Manila Bulletin Power utility giant Manila Electric Company (Meralco) said the proposed “fuel swap” arrangement’ aimed at bringing back the 1,200-megawatt Ilijan generating facility to operation cannot be concluded […]