November 2, 2018

MGen seeks to hike RE output to over 1,000 MW

By Lenie Lectura – November 2, 2018 from Business Mirror The power generation arm of the Manila Electric Co. (Meralco) wants to increase its planned renewable-energy (RE) portfolio to over 1,000 megawatts (MW)—mostly solar power—in the next two years to […]
October 31, 2018

Meralco may turn Atimonan coal plant into merchant facility

By Lenie Lectura – October 31, 2018 from Business Mirror THE Manila Electric Co. (Meralco) has considered the option of converting the shovel-ready $3-billion Atimonan One Energy (A1E) coal-fired power plant into a merchant facility or power plants that do […]
October 5, 2018

The Consumers Dilemma that is Atimonan….The Riddle that is Energy Mix. (Part 2)

David Celestra Tan, MSK 3 October 2018 Part 2 To see things in their whole perspective as a package of 3,551mw power supply contracts for Meralco’s own sister company Meralco PowerGen and their cartel partners, let us compare the ERC […]
October 4, 2018

The Consumers Dilemma that is Atimonan….The Riddle that is Energy Mix. (Part 1)

David Celestra Tan, MSK 3 October 2018 Part 1 What do Meralco consumers do now that the Atimonan One will most likely be approved in the next days, probably by the 9th?  After all the Atimonan One power supply contract […]