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 […]
May 22, 2017

SMC power unit to pursue solar-power development

By Lenie Lectura – May 21, 2017 from Business Mirror THE power business of conglomerate San Miguel Corp. (SMC) said it would pursue solar-power development, albeit on a small-scale basis. “Yes, pero hindi napakalaki. It could be 50-100 megawatts [MW],” SMC President Ramon Ang […]
November 19, 2016

ERC asked to re-validate ‘first dispatch schedule’ of solar plants

By Myrna M. Velasco – November 18, 2016, 10:00 PM from Manila Bulletin The registered “first dispatch schedule” of solar plants in the second wave race on feed-in-tariff (FIT) sets the “decisive point” on which projects will deserve the incentive, thus, […]
October 29, 2016

890 MW of solar to push FIT-All rate to P0.27/kwh

By Myrna M. Velasco – October 27, 2016, 10:01 PM from Manila Bulletin The country’s “overbuild” of solar farms will correspondingly punish Filipino consumers’ pockets with feed-in-tariff allowance (FIT-All) inflating to as high as R0.27 per kilowatt hour (kwh). That had […]