Philippines

The country’s economic managers are crafting a proposal to Congress that would re-classify the sites of power

SN Aboitiz Power Inc. renewed separate power supply agreements with three electric cooperative-customers in northern Luzon.

Mindanao could draw 360 megawatts of untapped supply through an interim Wholesale Electricity Spot Market.

General Electric Company will provide advanced metering infrastructure integrated solution for Meralco's prepaid metering service to customers.

New York-listed General Electric Company (GE) will be the provider of the advanced metering infrastructure integrated solution (AMIIS) to underpin Manila Electric Company’s (Meralco) rollout of prepaid metering service to customers.

Installation of solar panels on rooftops of households, commercial establishments and buildings is being pushed in the Philippines to help ensure energy security.

Trans-Asia Oil and Energy Development Corp.will resume commercial operations of its 21-megawatt bunker fuel-fired power plant at its new location in La Union.

The Philippine Solar Power Alliance has been lobbying for interconnection protocol to govern net metering for the import and export of capacity to and from the grid. 

The potential market for rooftop solar is placed at US$450 million annually but is almost completely untapped.

Icelandic firm H.S. Orka Energy will beef up the technical capability of the local developer of the 49-megawatt Biliran geothermal power project in the Visayas, Philippines.

Thai firm EGCO, through its subsidiary Quezon Power, is eyeing an equity take in the proposed P6-billion 48-MW wind power project in Oriental Mindoro, Philippines.

First Gen Corp. may invest as much as $3 billion in the next six years building power plants and a liquefied natural gas terminal.

Quezon Power Philippines Ltd. is trying to close an off-take power supply agreement with Meralco for the 500-megawatt expansion of its coal-fired power plant in Mauban.

Hedcor Inc. will add 60 megawatts to its portfolio of smaller-scale hydropower capacities, according to its president, Rene Ronquillo.

The National Grid Corporation of the Philippines will invest P269 million or US$6.44 million for additional capacitor banks at substations in the Luzon grid.

It will build a 135 megawatt circulating fluidized bed thermal facility in Iloilo.