Philippines

An environmental group is opposing the proposal to construct two coal-fired power plants in Negros Occidental.

The Visayas grid will need additional power plants to cope with increasing electricity demands in the next three years.

Eight hydroelectric power plants will be put up by Alsons Energy in the Visayas and Mindanao regions.

Cement firm Lafarge Republic Inc. announced its decision to ink a power supply deal with Masinloc Power

Four groups are eyeing to acquire the four diesel-fired power barges being auctioned in the Philippines.

Oriental Energy and Power Generation Corporation will invest some US$95 million to build two hydropower projects in the southern regions of the Philippines.

Clean energy company First Gen Corporation intends to build two hydropower plants with a combined capacity of 600 megawatts.

Meralco warned its customers in Metro Manila and nearby provinces of possible rotating brownouts in the coming days.

The foreign operator of a Philippine coal-fired power plant intends to immediately expand its operations.

A technology finance hub in Manila should help spur investments in clean technologies.

Carmen Copper Corp. has signed a 12-year Electric Power Purchase Agreement with Toledo Power Co.

Toledo Power Co., a subsidiary of the Metrobank Group’s Global Business Power Corp., is putting up a 72-megawatt coal-fired

A court declared the P14-billion settlement agreement between Meralco and Napocor valid, which could increase the electricity bill of Meralco consumers P0.12 per kilowatt-hour .

The Philippines' National Power Corp. has opened the bidding for the lease of 2.3-megawatt, continuous output modular diesel generating sets for the Tablas diesel power plant in Romblon.

First Gen Corp. is hoping a favorable Supreme Court decision would allow it to acquire the 246-megawatt Angat hydroelectric power plant in the province of Bulacan.

The Philippines' Department of Agriculture hopes to generate at least 20MW by putting up 40 mini-hydroelectric power plants in all irrigation systems in the country.  to help ease the power crisis.