October 25, 2018

Energy wooing China to build coal-fired plants

By Alena Mae S. Flores – October 24, 2018 at 08:30 pm from manilastandard.net Energy Secretary Alfonso Cusi is hoping Chinese companies will invest in merchant coal-fired power plants with a capacity of up to 1,500 megawatts in the Philippines […]
October 9, 2018

Meralco lowers electric rates

By Lenie Lectura – October 9, 2018 from Business Mirror POWER rates paid by customers of the Manila Electric Co. (Meralco) went down by P0.0966 per kilowatt-hour in October to P9.9766 per kWh mainly on account of lower generation charge. […]
October 3, 2018

WESM-Mindanao operations reset to first half of 2019

By Myrna M. Velasco – October 2, 2018, 10:00 PM from Manila Bulletin The commercial operations of the Wholesale Electricity Spot Market (WESM) in Mindanao will be pushed to first half of next year, according to the Department of Energy […]
October 1, 2018

Tax reforms to increase power rates in two years

By Alena Mae S. Flores – September 30, 2018 at 08:00 pm from manilastandard.net The Independent Electricity Market Operator of the Philippines Inc. warned that the staggered implementation of the government’s tax reform program will hike power rates by P0.2422 […]