The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) is re-validating submitted reports of power plants on ‘boiler tube leak incidents’ and other glitches that somehow caused rotating brownouts in Luzon. In a hearing by the...
Two more power plants are set to go through maintenance outages this month. Therma South Inc.’s 150-megawatt (MW) unit of its 300-MW Davao baseload power plant began its 17-day outage this week for...
Senator Paolo Benigno “Bam” Aquino IV on Wednesday filed a bill seeking to lower power rates by removing value added tax (VAT) from all sales by electric companies and cooperatives. Senate Bill...
World Bank Group member IFC invested $161 Million in three biomass power plants in Negros Occidental with the support from the Canadian government and the Clean Technology Fund. The plants currently being...
The Chamber of Commerce of the Philippine Islands has called on the government to immediately adopt nuclear power as an alternative energy source following the country’s energy problems and the high costs...
ATN Holdings Inc (ATNH) has secured a P1.5 billion investment plan to bankroll its 30-megawatt (MW) solar project in Rizal province. In its disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange, the company’s board...
The Chamber of Mines of the Philippines said that the industry contributed P40.7 billion to government coffers in 2013, contrary to the statement of the 2015 Country Report of the Philippine Extractive...
Semirara Mining and Power Corp has denied accusations of using toxic chemicals in its mining process, saying that it only involves extraction, stockpiling and shiploading. The company sent a letter to the...
The DMCI Power Corp. is constructing a 2 x 4.95-megawatt bunker-fired power plant in Palawan in order to give the area a stable power supply. “We are investing approximately P600 million in...
A month after saying he would not honor the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, President Rodrigo Duterte has shown openness to ratify the agreement, a Palace official said on Thursday. Communications Secretary Martin...
