Coal-fired power plant inaugurated in Quezon

BY JORDEENE B. LAGARE |Manila Times   MAUBAN, Quezon: San Buenaventura Power Ltd. Co. (SBPL) inaugurated on Tuesday its 500-megawatt (MW) supercritical coal-fired power plant, a first in the Philippines. The P52.6-billion power plant of SBPL — a joint venture of...

P56-B San Buenaventura power plant switched on

By Angelica Ballesteros | The Daily Tribune   MAUBAN, Quezon — Meralco PowerGen Corporation (MGen) officially launched on Tuesday the full operations of its P56.2-billion supercritical coal-fired power plant here. The facility, called the San Buenaventura Power...

SBPL’s 500 MW coal-fired plant to switch on Tuesday

By Lenie Lectura | Business Mirror   SAN Buenaventura Power Ltd. (SBPL) will “switch on” its 500-megawatt (MW) supercritical coal-fired power plant in Mauban, Quezon, on Tuesday, injecting the much additional capacity needed in the Luzon grid. SBPL, a partnership...

More ‘milestones’ needed

By Marichu A. Villanueva |The Philippine Star   ROME – By the time this comes out, we would already be back in Manila after 14 hours of flight from here, excluding four hours of lay-over via Abu Dhabi. It was almost a week-long stay in Italy but it felt like we did...

ERC issues provisional operating license to 500-MW Meralco plant

By Myrna M. Velasco | Manila Bulletin   Amid tight supply scare, the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) had fast-tracked the issuance of a provisional authority (PA) to temporarily serve as the license-to-operate for the 500-megawatt (MW) San Buenaventura power...