Electricity

by Alexis Romero – The Philippine Star, 12 Dec 2021 MANILA, Philippines — President Duterte has signed an executive order (EO) instituting measures to ensure consistent and reliable electricity service in inadequately served areas, including transferring the power to take over the operations of ailing electric cooperatives to the Office of the President.

by Iris Gonzales – The Philippine Star, 9 Nov 2021 (Last of three parts) MANILA, Philippines — The Malampaya deep water gas-to-power project is the biggest success story in the Philippine energy sector as it signaled the birth of the natural gas industry in the country.

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By Angelica Y. Yang, Reporter, 7 Jun 2021 THE Philippines needs to shift to flexible power plants and renewables, according to some experts, after rotating “brownouts” hit parts of Luzon last week.

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by INQUIRER.net, 17 Sep 2020 MANILA — The Center for Energy, Ecology, and Development (CEED) said Thursday the country’s dependence on coal power has actually driven power prices higher, as seen in the recent spike in electricity prices.

by Kristine Sabillo, ABS-CBN News, 22 Nov 2019 MANILA – The Philippines will likely be further dependent on coal in the next several years despite facing serious threats of climate change, according to environmental group Greenpeace Philippines.

By: Daphne Galvez, INQUIRER.net, May 06, 2019 MANILA, Philippines – Senator Sherwin Gatchalian is seeking to spur the microgrid system development in unserved and underserved areas across the country in line with the government’s target of 100 percent electrification in rural areas by 2022.

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by Danessa Rivera, The Philippine Star, Jan 28, 2019 MANILA, Philippines — Civil society groups have called for the overhaul of the Electric Power Industry Reform Act (EPIRA) of 2001, saying the current energy reforms are not enough to reduce the high cost of electricity.

By Eddie O’ Connor,, BusinessWorld, Apr 30, 2018 AS the economy in the Philippines continues to grow, energy demand races ahead. Recent analysis by the Asia Development Bank and the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) suggests that energy consumption will grow by 40% by 2025, with an 85% increase in energy demand for electricity.

BY JORDEENE LAGARE, THE MANILA TIMES, Feb 8, 2018 AFTER two consecutive months of declines, electricity rates will go up by P1.08 per kilowatt hour (kWh) this February to account for higher generation charges, listed power distribution utility Manila Electric Co. (Meralco) said.

BY JORDEENE SHEEX LAGARE, Manila Times, Jan 7, 2018 2018 wasn’t trouble-free for the Philippine power sector, which — after a relatively run of the mill legal dispute over planned reforms — saw controversies right up to the end of the year.

By Danessa Rivera (The Philippine Star), Aug 25, 2017 MANILA, Philippines – Philippine power rates remain one of the highest in Southeast Asia as of end-2016 due to continued lack of government subsidies, latest Department of Energy (DOE) data showed.

By: Conrado Banal – @inquirerdotnet, Feb 23, 2017 This is a tough one: At this very moment we are staring at another awful increase in electricity rates of at least 16 centavos per kwh. It comes in a special package called FIT (feed in tariff), the subsidy the government applies on power projects called REs…

By Danessa Rivera (The Philippine Star), November 1, 2016 Experts at a recent forum said electricity is the biggest expense for industrial firms, accounting for about a fourth of total costs. MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines will continue to lag in global competitiveness unless government addresses the country’s high power cost – considered among the…

by Boo Chanco (The Philippine Star), July 1, 2016 Today is the first day of the Duterte administration and there is a mountain range of high expectations. The past administration is leaving behind a number of crisis situations and new ones seem to be erupting every day. Over the last month, there had been five…

By Rey Gamboa (The Philippine Star), June 23, 2016, http://www.philstar.com/business/2016/06/23/1595612/liberalizing-power-sector-one-slow-painful-step-time The 15-year-old Electric Power Industry Reform Act (EPIRA) continues to test the nation’s patience. Amidst calls for its repeal, one thing stands out: EPIRA has still failed to bring down power rates in the country.

Mindanao faces the prospect of longer rotational blackouts at the start of the year as worsening right-of-way (ROW) issues continue to stall restoration work on bombed towers, the National Grid Corp. of the Philippines (NGCP) said.

MANILA, Philippines – Mindanao is experiencing rotational brownouts from an average of 1-4 hours due to the lower water level of dams, according to the Mindanao Power Monitoring Committee (MPMC).

By Iris C. Gonzales (The Philippine Star), June 15, 2015 MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines will have 23 new coal-fired power plants by 2020, Energy Secretary Carlos Jericho Petilla said.

MANILA (UPDATE) – After waiting for more than a year, the investigating unit of the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) found 13 power players liable for market abuse for withholding supply that led to a hefty spike in the spot market.

MANILA, Philippines – Demand for power will outpace supply in the Philippines in the next five years as regulatory and bureaucratic uncertainties persist, a report by the Economic Intelligence Unit (EIU) said.

DAVAO CITY, Philippines – More and longer blackouts are expected in Mindanao in the coming weeks, an official said yesterday. “The situation is generally back to normal as the system regains stability, but derated capacity from Agus Hydroelectric Power Complex due to low water levels is expected during summer,” said Romeo Montenegro, assistant director of…

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MANILA, Philippines – President Aquino will not get the kind of emergency powers he wants Congress to grant him to deal with a supposed electricity shortage in Luzon in the summer of 2015, the chairman of the House energy committee said yesterday.

MANILA, Philippines – The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) is laying the groundwork to put in place a permanent mitigating measure at the Wholesale Electricity Spot Market (WESM), the country’s trading floor for electricity.

A lawmaker on Wednesday said that Energy Secretary Carlos Jericho L. Petilla and other energy officials must first exhaust all options under the authority and powers of the executive department and the Electric Power Industry Reform Act before asking President Aquino to seek emergency powers from Congress to solve the looming power crisis in the…

The National Economic and Development Authority (Neda) warned that if the instability of the country’s power supply will continue, the Philippines’s export growth may be affected for the rest of 2014.

State-owned National Power Corp. said Monday it will appeal the order of the Supreme Court to settle P60.2 billion worth of backwages of former employees, saying it will affect the company’s finances and operation.