MANILA Electric Co. (Meralco) is set to distribute electricity to two islands in Quezon and Batangas, within its franchise area less than a year after the Department of Energy (DoE) called out the country’s biggest distribution utility for failing to energize these areas. “The ceremonial switch-on [in Isla Verde] is scheduled for Friday [Feb. 15],” […]

Imagine a place with no shopping malls, no movie houses, no air-conditioned buses, no five-star hotels, no fast-food chains, and no theme parks. We bet you’d have second thoughts about staying in such a place, especially for a long period of time. We’re talking about Romblon, a place so small, a tourist can easily complete the […]

Several companies have expressed their readiness to develop and operate electric vehicles although the government has not yet completed a regulation that would provide incentives for their development and adoption. PT Bakrie & Brothers has announced that it would soon launch an electric bus, produced in cooperation with Chinese automaker Build Your Dreams Auto (BYD). […]

The British manufacturer is aiming to roll out an EV model by 2021. The decision by British billionaire, James Dyson, to migrate his company’s automotive manufacturing headquarters from Wiltshire, England and into tiny Singapore deals more than a blow to the weakening West as it reiterates the inexorable shift in power towards Asia. A vocal […]

According to the National Electrification Project (NEP), the ministry has started implementing the first phase of power supply project to electrify 5,080 villages with a two-mile radius of the national power grid, in January, 2019, said Union Minister for Electricity and Energy Win Khaing. Upon completion of the first phase project, about 626,757 households in […]

LOS BAÑOS, Laguna, Feb. 10 — The Department of Energy (DOE) held the first leg of Information, Education and Communication (IEC) campaigns for the year on the implementation of Republic Act No. 9136 or the Electric Power Industry Reform Act (EPIRA) yesterday (7 February) at the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB). The DOE-Electric […]

MANILA, Philippines — Ten power coops have waived the collection of bill deposits as the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) revisits its rules. They comprise five electric cooperatives (ECs) in Luzon, two in Visayas and three in Mindanao. The five Luzon-based ECs are Benguet Electric Cooperative Inc. (Beneco), Lubang Island Electric Cooperative, Nueva Vizcaya Electric Cooperative, […]

SINGAPORE: With the roll-out of the Open Electricity Market in November, consumers now have more choice and many have been paying less for their electricity. But people also wonder if this is tenable in the long run and why SP Group, formerly the sole retailer of electricity in Singapore, could not offer the same discounts as […]

MANILA, Philippines — Customers of Manila Electric Co. (Meralco) will see an increase in electricity bills this month due to higher spot market prices and as capacity fees from power generators start to normalize. Meralco said there would be a P0.5682 per kilowatt-hour increase in overall electricity rates from P9.8385 to P10.4067 per kwh this […]

SINGAPORE – Nearly one in five consumers eligible to switch electricity retailer from Jan 1 has chosen to do so, said the Energy Market Authority (EMA). A total of 18 per cent of consumers in Zone 2 estates such as Bishan, Sengkang and Punggol, have chosen to buy electricity from a retailer instead of remaining with […]