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First Gen taps Svitzer for Philippines LNG project June 4, 2021, by Sanja Pekic FGEN LNG Corporation, a unit of First Gen Corporation, has entered into a ten-year contract with Denmark marine operator Svitzer for towage and vessel support services to its LNG terminal in Batangas City. Courtesy of First Gen The terminal is to be built at the First Gen Clean Energy Complex in Batangas City, Philippines. Svitzer, a part of the Maersk Group, is to provi...

The National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP), the private entity in charge of power transmission, has no information if power generation plants are regularly inspected, its spokesperson said Wednesday.

Electricity consumers in Luzon may expect rotational brownouts to be implemented for the entire first week of June amid thin power supply resulting from planned and unplanned outages of several power plants, the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines said Tuesday.

MANILA, Philippines — President Duterte has ordered vaccine czar Carlito Galvez Jr. to implement a proportional distribution of COVID-19 vaccines in areas outside Metro Manila as some provinces grapple with rising cases of infections. “I am directing Secretary Galvez to make a distribution, like pro rata,” the President said in a pre-recorded public address last Monday. “Let us divide the vaccines among ourselves since the bulk of the people of...

BusinessWorld June 1, 2021 | 8:34 pm PHILSTAR THE National Grid Corp. of the Philippines (NGCP) said it expects the Luzon grid to experience four more red alerts until next week, following an unplanned outage at a power plant in Mariveles, Bataan. “We foresee a sustained grid alert status for the next few days until Monday, June 7, because of thinning power supply. We see red alerts coming in tomorrow (June 2), Thursday (June 3), until Friday (June 4). We will have a short bre...

The National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) placed the Luzon Grid under Yellow Alert status on Monday morning, which will be heightened to Red Alert in the afternoon.

The National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) on Monday afternoon  lifted the red alert on the Luzon grid and has now placed it on yellow alert for the next few hours.

Power generation, consumption down for the first time since 2003 on May 4, 2021 at 8:22 pm Electricity generation and consumption nationwide have gone down on a yearly basis for the first time since 2003 in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent mobility restrictions, based on data from the Department of Energy (DOE). Power plants produced a total of  101,756 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, a 4.04% decline from 106,041GWh in 2019. Prior to this, generation consistently increased ...

BW wins FSRU deal for Philippines’ maiden LNG imports First Gen has awarded a five-year deal that will see Norway’s BW Gas Limited supply a floating storage regasification unit (FSRU) to support its Interim Offshore LNG Terminal project in the Philippines. Updated: 06/04/2021, 4:46 am © Shutterstock / ronaldbuday The Philippines flag Register here for the Energy Voice daily newsletter, bringing you key news and insight from across the global energy landscape. Thank you for signing up to ou...

April 6, 2021 | 12:06 am Font Size FIRSTGEN.COM.PH/ A SUBSIDIARY of First Gen Corp. has entered into a five-year contract to charter a liquefied natural gas (LNG) carrier from a unit of Norway-based BW Gas Ltd. in line with the Lopez-led company’s offshore gas terminal project in Batangas. In a disclosure on Monday, First Gen said the floating storage regasification unit (FSRU) that will be provided to its wholly owned subsidiary FGEN LNG Corp. is a vessel with a storage capacity ...