Quezon Power News Today

Quezon Power (Philippines) Ltd. Co. (QPL) is jumping on the liquefied natural gas (LNG) bandwagon with its investment in a 1,200-megawatt (MW) gas-fired thermal power plant. The company plans to allot some P71 billion for the LNG project, which is expected to start commercial operations in the first quarter of…

Quezon Power (Philippines) Ltd. Co. looks to begin co-firing its 460-megawatt (MW) coal-fired power plant in Mauban, Quezon with ammonia by the end of the..

The Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities (ICSC) called on the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) to modernize the transmission network in order to fully integrate renewable energy (RE) into the Philippine grid. The NGCP has declared that the influx of a lot of variable technologies would need…

The Department of Energy (DOE) has endorsed 12 power projects to the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) for the issuance of certificates of compliance (CoCs). Based on the agency’s January 2023 list, seven of the power generation facilities are diesel-powered, two are coal-powered, another two are solar-powered, and one hydro-powered. The…

Co-firing with ammonia is being promoted as a way of reducing carbon dioxide emissions in coal power generation facilities.

Quezon Power (Philippines) Ltd. Co. (QPL) of Thailand’s EGCO Group and South Korean firm Doosan Enerbility Co. Ltd. have cemented a deal targeting to pioneer ammonia co-firing at QPL’s coal-fired power generation facility in Mauban, Quezon. According to Quezon Power, it inked a memorandum

MANILA (Philippine Daily Inquirer/Asia News Network): Several areas in Luzon experienced rotating brownouts starting Sunday (Sept 11) after the electricity supply plummeted due to the shutdown of seven power plants and the lower output from three other facilities.

That we’re having red alerts in the power grid now during the rainy season when demand is not quite at its peak unlike, say, during the scorching days of summer, shows that the situation is indeed precarious and is bound to get worse unless we see new power plants.

The revised uniform taxation being enforced by the Bureau of Customs (BoC) on Indonesian coal imports being utilized for power generation will drive up electricity rates, according to industry players. As noted, the scale of rate increases in the electric bills could range from P0.10 per kilow

Following a "brownout weekend" that affected millions of consumers, Luzon grid tumbled into new round of "red alert" on Monday, Sept. 12, due to confluence of factors ignited by transmission line tripping, forced outages of power plants and de-rating of electricity generation of some facilities.