Electricity bills of Manila Electric Co. (Meralco)’s customers will go up by P0.66 per kilowatt hour (kWh), bringing the overall rate to P9.67 per kWh, the power distributor said. This month’s increase...
The Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management Corporation (PSALM) has delayed the sale of the 650 megawatt (MW) Malaya Thermal Power Plant (TPP) following the energy department’s proposal to convert it into...
Power company Pure Energy Holdings Corporation (PEHC) and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Philippines has inked a partnership to identify potential areas to deploy renewable energy projects. “Seize the Flow”...
Philippine-based Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific Company (AG&P) has partnered with German Air Liquide Group for the development of small-scale infrastructures to distribute liquefied natural gas (LNG) across Asia. LNG solutions provider AG&P...
In order to spur economic development in the region, the House of Representatives has approved the measures needed to create the Mindanao Power Corporation. The House Committees on Government Enterprises and Privatization, and on...
A lawmaker is seeking the buyback of the 40 percent share of China’s State Grid Corp. in the National Grid Corp. of the Philippines (NGCP), the operator of the country’s power grid....
The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) has approved Manila Electric Co. (Meralco)’s proposal to stagger the impending rate hike this month caused by the maintenance shutdown of the Malampaya gas facility last month. However,...
The government is shelling out P50 million for the review of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources’ (DENR) order to close or suspend 28 mines. Department of Finance secretary Carlos Dominguez...
Japan’s seven major trading houses is looking to invest P198.5 billion investment interests in the country, including a P75-billion coal-fired power plant, the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) said. The Sogo Shosha...
Manila Electric Co. (Meralco) is looking into a technical partnership with a distribution utility (DU) in Nigeria, its top official said. “There’s another distribution utility in Nigeria who asked us to be...
