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NIGHTS are cooler, and we’re regularly getting the evening showers. This means, the hot summer is almost over, and with it, floods, landslides and just about every calamity that we have become very familiar with. According to the United Nations University (UNU), Philippines ranks third among the countries most vulnerable to climate change and disasters caused by natural hazards

IROSIN, Sorsogon—In the 1990s, the locals successfully blocked attempts of the Philippine National Oil Co. (PNOC) to put up a geothermal power plant in the area, Irosin Coalition Against Geothermal (ICAG) Chairman Dr. Precy D. Gante told the ...

The Philippines has approved three wind farm projects that will generate 208 megawatts, enough to power more than 40,000 middle-class homes, an energy official said on Monday.

MANILA, Philippines - Energy Development Corp., the country's leading producer of geothermal energy, on Monday said it signed a joint venture agreement with a Canada-based renewable energy company. In a disclosure to the stock exchange, EDC said it ...

The DOE certificate confirms the Declaration of Commerciality of EDC Burgos Wind Power Corporation to develop, operate, and maintain a feasible and viable 87 MW Wind Power Project under Wind Energy Service Contract No. 2009-09-004. ... Aside from the wind farm, the BWP is also comprised of a 115 kV transmission line that will connect the wind farm to the Laoag substation of the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) and of a substation and interconnection works package

Even if summer is sizzling hot in the Philippines, it still means vacation time for most youth — that is, traveling to a distant place to go to the beach and bask under the sun. And for Energy Development Corp. (EDC), the pioneer in geothermal energy in the country, it is energy camp time once again

Philippine renewable energy company, PhilCarbon Inc., plans to resurrect the century-old 50-kilowatt Pasonanca hydropower station in Zamboanga City. PhilCarbon president Ruth Yu-Owen said the company will invest P10 million to rehabilitate and ...

The European Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines (ECCP) welcomes the country’s secondd credit rating upgrade but said more and bolder efforts are needed to be done by the government to ensure energy supply stability and quality to create a domestic environment truly conducive to job-friendly investments

Energy Development (EDC), a Philippines-based geothermal company, is mulling over plans to expand its Burgos wind-energy project in Ilocos Norte to about 150MW. The 87MW project, which is scheduled for operation by 2014, is expected to cost the ...

The Luzon-wide power outage last Wednesday was primarily caused by an overload of electricity that tripped the Biñan-Calaca power line, as pointed out by the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines, and not by any discrepancy in the power supply and demand situation, the Department of Energy said Friday

Manila, Philippines -- As the power outages spread to Luzon and Metro Manila just few days to the mid-term elections, electricity consumers in Mindanao are fuming mad over the sudden increase in their electricity bills amid rotational brownouts ranging from five to seven hours daily that have gripped them for the past three months

MANILA, Philippines – Energy Development Corp. (EDC), the Philippines' largest geothermal producer, is targeting only big ticket projects in its international expansion plans, said the company’s president and COO, Richard Tantoco. Speaking on the sidelines of EDC’s annual stockholder meeting on Tuesday, May 7, Tantoco said they have received a lot

KIDAPAWAN CITY, Cotabato, Philippines — About 1,000 electric power consumers here blocked the road towards the Mt. Apo geothermal plants owned by the Energy Development Corporation (EDC), a Lopez-owned generation facility early Thursday.

BERLIN, Germany - The off-grid areas in the island-drenched Philippines and Indonesia are the main targets for solar power developments of German firm Solon Energy GmbH.