October 9, 2017

Ilijan standoff to hike power rates

By Alena Mae S. Flores – October 08, 2017 at 08:20 pm from manilastandard.net Consumers of Manila Electric Co. will be exposed to price volatilities at the Wholesale Electricity Spot Market, or WESM, if the government terminates the contract of San Miguel […]
October 7, 2017

Viewpoint: Meralco Midnight Contracts an ERC-Meralco Conspiracy?

Evelyn Viray Jallorina Alyansa para saBagongPilipinas 6 October 2017 Did ERC actually conspire with Meralco in making way for MeralcoPowerGen to sign the 3,551mw of new power supply agreements? Our cause oriented group, Alyansa para saBagongPilipinas had filed a complaint […]
September 29, 2017

Meralco sees sales volume rising 5%

By Alena Mae S. Flores – September 27, 2017 at 07:01 pm from manilastandard.net Manila Electric Co., the biggest electricity retailer, expects sales volume to grow 5 percent this year in the face of increased demand across all sectors. “This year, we’re […]
September 29, 2017

NGCP says reserves in Luzon grid thin again

By Alena Mae S. Flores – September 28, 2017 at 07:01 pm from manilastandard.net Grid operator National Grid Corp. of the Philippines declared a ‘yellow alert’ in the Luzon grid for a few hours Thursday amid thin reserves brought about by the outage […]