Meralco PowerGen Corp. (MGEN), Meralco’s power generation arm, has announced a leadership reshuffle across its generation business, appointing new executives to lead its thermal power platform while assigning outgoing thermal chief Felino “Lino” Bernardo to oversee major energy transition and growth projects.

The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) said it facilitated PHP 21.3 billion in refunds for electricity consumers during the first 10 months of Chairperson and CEO Atty. Francis Saturnino C. Juan’s tenure, highlighting the figure as it marked its 25th anniversary this month.

MANILA – Department of Energy (DOE) officials are hopeful for the sustained drop in fuel prices as the initial peace deal between the United States and Iran are scheduled to be signed later this week.

THE National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) said on Monday that overall average transmission rate for the May billing period went down by 9.33 percent to P1.4492 per kilowatt hour (kW) from P1.5983/kWh in April.

PRESIDENT Ferdinand Marcos Jr. will lead efforts of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) in seeking greater cooperation on energy and culture with Moscow as well as economic engagements with the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) during the Asian regional bloc’s commemorative summit with Russia this week, according to the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA).

To boost the national government’s response to the ongoing energy crisis, the state-run Maharlika Investment Corp. (MIC) has remitted ₱1.38 billion in cash dividends to the Bureau of the Treasury (BTr).

Select residential customers of the Manila Electric Company (Meralco) may have received unusually low bills for May or may even have been charged zero after the company refunded bill deposits and accumulated interest through credits applied directly to their accounts.

Trinasolar has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Ecohope Solar covering the planned distribution of 600 megawatts (MW) of its latest solar modules across Southeast Asia over the next three years.

Bago Negros Energy Corporation (BNEC), a subsidiary of Thailand-based Sermsang Power Corporation Public Company Limited (SSP), has started construction of its 150-megawatt (MW) Bago Wind Farm in Negros Occidental, marking a major renewable energy investment that is expected to begin commercial operations by 2027.

THE government may award the contract to rehabilitation the Agus-Pulangi hydroelectric complex in Mindanao by year’s end, paving the way for the restoration of the power facility’s rated capacity.