World’s biggest solar farm breaks ground in Luzon

Lisbet K. Esmael 11/21/2024

Tycoon Manuel V. Pangilinan anticipates higher capital spending for his Manila Electric Co. (Meralco) Group next year as the construction of the world’s biggest solar farm in Luzon is in full swing. In a chance interview with…

Negros Occidental emerging ‘hope spot’ for green energy

Carla Gomez 08/14/2023

BACOLOD CITY—Negros Occidental province is not just the country’s “sugar bowl” but has become a center for renewable energy (RE) in the Philippines, producing electricity from sustainable sources more than the local demand. Among its renewable energy…

DBP launches new program for renewable energy projects

01/03/2022

State-owned Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP) has launched a new loan program to expand support for utility-scale solar power developers in the country and bolster investments in the renewable energy sector, a top official said. DBP…

DOE green energy pricing program to attract investments, financing for renewable energy projects

Irene R. Sino Cruz 11/13/2019

CEBU CITY — The green energy pricing program proposed by the Department of Energy aims to encourage investments and financing for renewable energy program. The government aims to increase the use of renewable energy by promoting the…

DOE highlights role of transport sector in reducing oil consumption

Irene Sino-Cruz 09/03/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Department of Energy (DOE) projects that the transport sector would contribute 70% of the total reduction in oil consumption by 2040. This was revealed by Michael Sinocruz, chief of DOE Energy Policy and…

Green Energy Option Program: DOE to give consumers choice to tap renewable energy suppliers

Futch Anthony Inso 06/18/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines – Power consumers will soon have an option to source their supply from renewable energy producers with the implementation of the “Green Energy Option Program” by the Department of Energy (DOE). “This is more…

NGCP exec: P52-B VisMin interconnection project on track

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 09/27/2018

A P52-BILLION National Grid Corp. of the Philippines (NGCP) project to link power grid of Visayas and Mindanao is on track for its completion in 2020. The different packages of the project called the Mindanao-Visayas Interconnection Project…

The future of PH energy

01/07/2017

SYDNEY, Australia—The future of energy is now committed to an age of sustainable energy, ushered in by rapid transitions to renewable energy systems coupled with large-scale harvesting of energy efficiency potentials. The Philippines should fit into this…

The Big Day

Atty. Gloria Estenzo Ramos 10/30/2016

Have you watched the riveting film “Before The Flood”? It premiered yesterday, October 30, and is aired on the National Geographic Channel starting October 30 until November 6 in 171 countries and 45 languages. With this documentary,…

‘The ice is melting’

Malou Guanzon Apalisok 10/24/2016

That’s how Xu Liping, a professor at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences quoted by the Chinese daily, Global Times, described in a nutshell President Rodrigo Duterte’s 4-day state visit to China. He could have been pointing…

AboitizPower to supply energy needs of 2 Cebu companies

PR 10/03/2016

A MAJOR resort operator and a metal works company in Cebu have chosen Aboitiz Power’s renewable energy to power their continued growth. JPark Island Resort and Waterpark and NKC (Nakanishi Metal Works Co. Ltd), both operating on…

Firm targets millennials as it grows ‘cleanergy’ products

Aileen Garcia-Yap 08/17/2016

A homegrown power generating company is focusing on growing further its renewable power portfolio through the Open Access regime to tap into the growing interest among millennials for new energy-related products and services. Wilfredo Rodolfo III, AboitizPower…

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