June 9, 2021

DOE seeks Meralco pricing justification on emergency PSA

By Myrna M. Velasco – June 8, 2021, 3:32 PM from Manila Bulletin The Department of Energy (DOE) has notified Manila Electric Company (Meralco) for the utility firm to explain the ‘pricing justification’ of its interim power supply agreement (IPSA) […]
June 7, 2021

Regulator tags giant power firms as ‘brownout culprits’

By Myrna M. Velasco – June 7, 2021, 6:00 AM from Manila Bulletin ERC hints ‘pricing play’ The country’s giant power firms have been tagged as the culprits in last week’s rotational brownouts with “forced outages’ of their power plants […]
June 6, 2021

NEA seeks write-off of EC’s ‘worthless receivables’

By Myrna M. Velasco – June 4, 2021, 5:02 PM from Manila Bulletin The National Electrification Administration (NEA) is seeking write-off of the consumers’ “worthless receivables”, including those whose records have been destroyed or already impossible to be retrieved. In […]
June 5, 2021

‘Red alert’ threats in Luzon grid persisting until June 10 – DOE

By Myrna M. Velasco – June 4, 2021, 2:23 PM from Manila Bulletin Threats of probable rotating brownouts would persist until June 10, as ‘red alert’ conditions are still foreseen in the country’s major power grid, according to the Department […]