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 8, 2017

DOE crafts incentives for RE installations in off-grid islands

By Myrna M. Velasco – November 7, 2017, 10:00 PM from Manila Bulletin The Department of Energy (DOE) is working on a formula that will incentivize deployments of renewable energy (RE) technologies along off-grid domains via the renewable portfolio standards (RPS) […]
November 6, 2017

DOE to review pass-on power charges

By Lenie Lectura -November 6, 2017 from Business Mirror A recent decision of the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) that allowed an electric cooperative (EC) to pass on to its customers P232 million worth of unpaid power fees owed to a power supplier […]
November 4, 2017

TransCo asked to refund P14 B in RE subsidy collections

By Myrna M. Velasco – November 3, 2017, 10:00 PM from Manila Bulletin Fund administrator National Transmission Corporation (TransCo) is being urged to refund up to P14 billion worth of two-year subsidy collections for the feed-in-tariff allowance (FIT-All) charges that had […]