November 10, 2017

Higher power rates this month–Meralco

By Lenie Lectura -November 9, 2017 from Business Mirror Power rates this month will increase by P0.3436 per kilowatt hour (kWh) for a typical residential household, thereby bringing the overall rate from last month’s P9.2836 per kWh to P9.6272 per kWh. The […]
November 2, 2017

MGI geothermal plant in Sto. Tomas, Batangas now producing 600 GWh

By Lenie Lectura – October 30, 2017 from Business Mirror MAIBARARA Geothermal Inc. (MGI) said on Monday its 20-megawatt (MW) unit-1 geothermal-power plant in Santo Tomas, Batangas, reached its 600-gigaWatt-hour (GWh) generation mark on October 25. This milestone was achieved three years and eight months […]
October 13, 2017

NGCP targets Mindanao grid reinforcement by 2019

By Myrna M. Velasco – October 12, 2017, 10:01 PM from Manila Bulletin Following last weekend’s partial blackout in Mindanao, the country’s power system operator has announced that it will be completing reinforcement at the grid by the first quarter of […]
May 24, 2017

The RE Feed-In Tariff Dream that Turned Into a Nightmare for Consumers

David Celestra Tan, MSK 18 May 2017 How is it that whenever the government is doing something supposedly good in power, the electric consumers get screwed in the end? Just like the rest of the world, the Philippines had this […]