NKC Manufacturing Philippines Corp. and First Gen Corp. switched on a 1.8-megawatt-peak (MWp) rooftop solar facility in September 2026, four months after signing a construction agreement.

British International Investment (BII), the UK’s development finance institution, plans to commit USD 1.6 billion to climate finance across Southeast Asia over the next five years, including in the Philippines, to support the region’s shift toward cleaner energy.

THE Wholesale Electricity Spot Market (WESM) prices shot up last month by 3 percent to P7.43 per kilowatt hour, (kWh) driven mostly by power plant outages, Independent Electricity Market Operator of the Philippines (Iemop) said Tuesday.

THE ENERGY Regulatory Commission (ERC) on Tuesday issued an order to all distribution utilities (DUs) to suspend electricity service disconnections for residential customers consuming 200 kilowatt hours (kWh) or less who fail to settle their November and December bills.

The Department of Energy (DOE) has reported the completion of 51 power generation and energy storage projects with a combined capacity of 1,864.60 megawatts (MW) under its ongoing Task Force 200 initiative, as it works to strengthen supply reliability amid potential reserve constraints in Luzon.

ELECTRICITY rates will go up by P0.3191 per kilowatt hour (kWh) this month, bringing overall rate for a typical household with a monthly consumption of 200 kWh to P15.0615 per kwh from P14.7424 per kwh in September.

Consunji-led Semirara Mining and Power Corp. (SMPC) claimed it had been kept in the dark about the ongoing coal bidding process despite investing over P55 billion in specialized deep-mining infrastructure.

CEBU CITY—The Cebu provincial government, energy companies, power distributors and business groups have formed the Cebu Energy Alliance to coordinate measures addressing electricity supply constraints, rising power costs and the province’s rapidly expanding demand.

Alsons Consolidated Resources Corp. said Tuesday it is expanding and diversifying its energy portfolio through solar and hydropower projects to meet Mindanao’s future power demand/.

Pangasinan 2nd District Rep. Mark O. Cojuangco urged the government to accelerate the country’s nuclear energy push and move from renewed policy discussions toward concrete implementation, including the proposed revival of the Philippine Nuclear Power Plant (PNPP) in Bataan.