July 26, 2023

Power firms laud President’s support for renewables

By Alena Mae S. Flores – July 25, 2023, 7:00 pm from manilastandard.net Power industry players on Tuesday lauded the Marcos administration for addressing the country’s growing energy needs through renewable energy and removal of transmission and other regulatory bottlenecks. […]
June 27, 2023

NEA asks ERC to intervene in supply over-contracting by electric coops

By Alena Mae S. Flores – June 26, 2023, 6:10 pm from manilastandard.net State-run National Electrification Administration asked the Energy Regulatory Commission to intervene in cases of over-contracting of supply by electric cooperatives. NEA administrator Antonio Mariano Almeda requested ERC […]
April 13, 2023

ERC to modify ‘reliability index’ on plant outages

BY MYRNA M. VELASCO – Apr 12, 2023 4:15 PM from Manila Bulletin The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) will be revising the rules that will set reliability indices for power plant operations, primarily their permissible allowance on planned and forced […]
March 31, 2023

IEMOP: Time to review, but not junk, the SPC on traded power

BY LENIE LECTURA – MARCH 27, 2023 from Business Mirror THE Independent Electricity Market Operator of the Philippines (IEMOP) agrees that the secondary price cap (SPC), a mechanism that puts a ceiling on traded power whenever prices shoot up in […]