The Renewable Energy (RE) Act of 2008 will undergo a review by the Joint Congressional Power Commission in January 2017 to determine if its intentions are beneficial to consumers. Senator Sherwin Gatchalian...
Three years after Typhoon Yolanda struck, thirty families from the fishing community of Costa Brava in Barangay 88, Tacloban City received solar kits for their basic electricity needs. Costa Brava remains to...
Royal Dutch Shell’s local unit is on the hunt for renewable energy opportunities in the country as it looks beyond fossil fuels, a top official said. Pilipinas Shell chairman Cesar Romero on...
A 42 percent increase in its nine-month income ending September 2016 was recorded by First Gen Corp. following higher earnings from its renewable energy assets and liquidated damages from the construction delay...
The country’s high power cost may continue to affect the manufacturing sector thus cause lag in the global competitiveness unless the government takes action, experts said. Electricity accounts for about one-fourth of...
The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) has approved the 30-day extension on the Feed-in-Tariff Allowance (FIT-All) 2017 rate application of the National Transmission Corp. (Transco) The ERC has moved the deadline to December...
World’s largest independent power producer Engie is laying out natural gas and renewable power projects in the Asia Pacific – including a solar-hydrogen storage in the Philippines – as it prepares its...
The Global Business Power Corp. (GBPC) is eyeing developments on waste-to-energy projects of at least 55 megawatts (MW) with two sugar mills in Bacolod and Batangas. “The two other mills [in Bacolod]...
The Raw Brown Sugar Milling Company, Inc. (RBSMI) has become the first sugarcane manufacturing facility in the country to be powered by a fluidized bed gasification (FBG) system facility. “I see several...
The renewable energy arm of the Philippine National Oil Co. (PNOC) is facing abolition as the renewable energy sector is flourishing without its intervention, a senator said. Senator Sherwin Gatchalian said that...
