December 7, 2016

Energy department to investors: Don’t pull plug on power investments

By Lenie Lectura – December 6, 2016 from Business Mirror The Department of Energy (DOE) on Tuesday strongly urged the private sector to continue investing in the power sector, stressing the country needs an additional 17,338 megawatts (MW) of power-generation capacity by 2030. […]
December 7, 2016

Growth to raise demand for power

by Alena Mae S. Flores – December 06, 2016 at 08:40 pm from Manila Standard Today The Philippines will need additional power capacity of 17,338 megawatts by 2030 as energy demand is expected to continue to grow driven by projections of an eight […]
December 6, 2016

NGCP asked to assess ‘protection systems’ to prevent future brownouts

By Myrna M. Velasco – December 5, 2016, 10:01 PM from Manila Bulletin As explosion at its substation was directly tagged as the cause of the November 15 rolling brownouts, system operator National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) was directed […]
November 8, 2016

NGCP lends substation equipment to Cebu coop

By Myrna M. Velasco – November 7, 2016, 10:00 PM from Manila Bulletin To prevent service distress in the franchise area of the Cebu 2 Electric Cooperative (CEBECO II), transmission firm National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) has temporarily lent […]