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.

Central Negros Electric Cooperative will have sufficient power supply until 2015 and that power shortage will be addressed after that.

NGCP spent close to P30 million to be able to expedite power restoration processes during actual emergencies.

A bill has been filed in the Philippine Senate seeking to maintain government ownership of the Agus-Pulangui hydropower plants in Mindanao.

The rehabilitation of Pulangui unit 4 in Bukidnon has been completed nine days ahead of the May 17 schedule.

The Philippines breaks ground for its first geothermal power plant in five years.