14 engineering students from the University of Southeastern of Philippines (USEP) received a scholarship program from Aboitiz Power Subsidiary Therma South Inc for academic year 2016 – 2017. A memorandum of agreement was...
Developing nations who feel the need to industrialize face the challenge of doing so while cutting back on their emissions. A possible asset to the country’s dilemma on sufficient energy is said...
The Batak Tribe in Kalakwasa, Palawan Islands now have access to electricity through Pilipinas Shell Foundation’s Access to Energy Pilot Project. The Palawan islands is located near the Malampaya Deepwater gas-to-power project,...
Meralco PowerGen Corporation’s Redondo Peninsula Energy Inc. (RP Energy) received its certificate of registration for its 600-megawatt (MW) Subic-based coal-fired plant from the Board of Investments (BOI). The company is now negotiating...
Each year, 6.5 million deaths are linked to air pollution. It is felt more particularly the poorest societies. 80 percent of the population living in cities that monitor air pollution levels breathe...
Despite the growth of various industries all over the world, there remains the problem of energy poverty, where people from different countries have no access to electricity, despite this being an integral...
The Manila Electric Company (Meralco) and the Department of Energy (DOE) provided electricity for 2000 households in its franchise area. 2, 082 of DOE’s ‘identified communities’ were given combined regular and prepaid electricity service...
In 2015, the United States had an installed capacity of 3,442 megawatts (MW) from geothermal energy. The Philippines followed with 1,968 MW. The Geysers, the world’s largest geothermal developer, is in San Francisco,...
The country has 18 biomass power plants with the capacity to power 300,000 homes. Two of the power plants are fired by bagasse which are residues of sugarcane, and are located in Negros Occidental...
The Philippines is the world’s second-largest producer of geothermal energy next to the United States. With the Renewable Energy Act of 2008 in place, the geothermal industry in the Philippines is taking...
