December 7, 2023

DOE promotes climate finance, pushes early phaseout of PH coal power plants

By Alena Mae S. Flores – December 6, 2023, 8:55 pm from manilastandard.net The Department of Energy (DOE) said Wednesday climate financing is key to the success of the Philippines’ energy transition even as it encouraged a voluntary early and […]
September 18, 2020

Plant outages, gas restriction cause new spikes in power rates

By Myrna M. Velasco – September 18, 2020, 5:00 AM from Manila Bulletin New wave of power plant outages and the recent gas output restriction at the Malampaya field triggered new round of spikes in prices at the Wholesale Electricity […]
June 5, 2020

‘Yellow alert’ amid ample power supply alarms DOE

By Lenie Lectura – June 5, 2020 from Business Mirror The Luzon grid was placed on yellow alert for three hours on Thursday despite sufficient power supply. According to the Department of Energy (DOE), the issuance of the yellow alert, […]
January 3, 2018

Pagbilao Energy set to operate $1-b coal-fired power plant in February

By Alena Mae S. Flores – January 02, 2018 at 08:23 pm from manilastandard.net Pagbilao Energy Corp. is set to start the full commercial operations of the $1-billion Pagbilao 3 coal-fired power plant in Quezon province in February, which will add 420 […]