December 19, 2017

Meralco unit tapping Irish firm

By Alena Mae S. Flores – December 15, 2017 at 07:51 pm from manilastandard.net Meralco PowerGen Corp., the generation unit of Manila Electric Co., is set to finalize an operations and maintenance agreement with ESB International of Ireland for the 1,200-megawatt Atimonan coal-fired […]
December 13, 2017

DoE targets 25% of reserve power buffer

December 8, 2017 from BusinessWorld THE Department of Energy (DoE) said the country needs to build a buffer of reserve power that is at least 25% of demand as the agency’s top official made his annual call for businesses to […]
December 11, 2017

Coal tax to hit power customers

By Alena Mae S. Flores – December 10, 2017 at 09:30 pm from manilastandard.net Customers of Manila Electric Co. will experience higher generation charges of P0.0455 per kilowatt-hour, once the government slaps a P300 excise tax on every metric ton of coal. Meralco […]
December 5, 2017

COAL OR NATURAL GAS IS NOT AN EITHER OR QUESTION

David Celestra Tan, MSK December 5, 2017 There is an ongoing battle for the minds of the people and policy makers between pro-coal and pro-LNG. It is however not an either or question. The country needs a diversified energy source […]