Just four days after online classes have begun in public schools, the Manila Electric Company (MERALCO) announced an increase of Php0.12 per kilowatt hour. MERALCO’s latest rate increase ends five straight months...
The Manila Electric Company (MERALCO) is set to issue disconnection notices to regular customers who are unable to pay their dues by the end of its grace period on October 31, but...
FirstGen subsidiary FGEN LNG Corporation has tapped the services of Australia-based McConnell Dowell as the Lopez-owned company’s engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractor for its interim liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal project....
Sen. Sherwin Gatchalian emphasized the need to extensively study all factors before reopening the controversial Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP). The senator’s call comes as Pres. Rodrigo Duterte is considering the plant’s...
Petron, the country’s biggest oil refiner, may close its refinery in Limay, Bataan if the government wouldn’t heed its appeal for a level playing field in the local oil industry, said its...
Albay Rep. Edcel Lagman recently questioned the proposed Php92.3-billion budget to reopen and maintain the mothballed Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP), branding it as a memorial of greed and corruption during the...
Senate energy committee chairman Sherwin Gatchalian urged the government and energy players to begin exploration for new sources of natural gas with lesser production coming from the Malampaya gas field. “Maghanap pa...
The controversial Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP) can still operate safely despite not being in use for decades, according to an official of the Philippine Nuclear Research Institute (PNRI). PNRI Director Carlo...
After stepping down as director of FirstGen Corporation, Eugenio “Gabby” Lopez III also left his post as Vice Chairman and Director of Lopez Holdings Corporation, together with his uncle Oscar Lopez, who...
The Malampaya Deep Water Gas-to-power Project has posted an all-time high gas production at 155.495 billion standard cubic feet (scf) in 2019, based on data from the Department of Energy (DOE). This...
