News and Updates
Revised outage limits raise concerns on power system reliability in Visayas and Mindanao
QUEZON CITY, 10 September 2026 — Filipino consumers are facing mounting pressure for a more dependable power system as recurring grid alerts expose vulnerabilities in the country’s electricity supply, with the Visayas alone recording 123 yellow and red alerts since January—underscoring the need for policy and system-level measures to [...]
Paranas communities help shape municipality’s 15-year RE roadmap
The Municipality of Paranas in Samar is moving forward in developing its 15-year renewable energy (RE) roadmap, bringing together communities, government offices, civil society groups, the academe, and energy stakeholders to help shape the municipality’s energy future. On August 24, stakeholders gathered at Kirigtaan Hall in Paranas for the [...]
Renewable energy delivers nearly twice the FIT-ALL rate in lower electricity costs
QUEZON CITY, 26 August 2026 –– Renewable energy projects supported through the Feed-in-Tariff (FIT) mechanism have reduced electricity bills by Php 0.3916/kWh* across 2024-2025, almost twice the recently elevated FIT Allowance (FIT-All) rate of Php 0.2073/kWh, according to a new analysis by the Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities [...]
Our Shared Responsibility: Tracing Stories of Climate Action
by Dana Jamela Loot Editor’s Note: Dana is the AGGA Philippines Focal Person for Visayas, and the Vice Chairperson for External Affairs of the Western Visayas State University Development Communicators’ Society. Climate action is often felt and discussed in statistics, from the degrees of continued global warming, tons [...]
ICSC: Consumers should not pay for preventable electricity losses
QUEZON CITY, 24 August 2026 –– Consumers should not be made to pay for system losses that electric distribution utilities can prevent. The Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities (ICSC), in a recent position paper, is calling for reforms that distinguish unavoidable technical losses from preventable losses caused by [...]
