Press Releases
MGen-GBP employees bring holiday cheers in Bulacan and Rizal
MGen-GBP employees together with the students from Dona Paz Sumulong Elementary School during the Pamaskong Handog in Baras, Rizal. Some of the MGen-GBP volunteers distribute noche buena packages and gift bags to the families and kids of Brgy. Tibagan—one of the...
BALIK ESKWELA KITS FOR BARAS PUPILS
In photo (L-R): PHRI Site Head RJ Rivera, MGen-GBP CSR Luzon Head Jason Gavina, MES Head Teacher Mercedita Dampog, and some of the pupil-recipients. BALIK ESKWELA KITS. In time for the resumption of full in-person classes, PH Renewables, Inc. (PHRI) provided 100...
PH Renewables leads tree planting activity in Rizal
Under One Meralco Foundation’s One for Trees program, PH Renewables Inc. (PHRI)—a subsidiary of MGen Renewable Energy, Inc. (MGreen)—led a tree planting activity last November 3 in partnership with the local government unit of Baras, Rizal. Around 60 volunteers...
PEMC acclaims MGen units for exemplary compliance
Cebu Energy Development Corporation (CEDC) and Panay Power Corporation (PPC)-Nabas, thermal facilities of Global Business Power Corporation (GBP) under the Meralco PowerGen (MGen) Group, recently garnered citations for their exemplary compliance on the rules being...
BULACANSOL, GREENEARTH HERITAGE FOUNDATION PARTNER FOR TREE PLANTING ACTIVITY
Some volunteers and partners from San Miguel, Bulacan during the tree planting activity held last July 27 at Greenearth Heritage Foundation plantation site. As part of its commitment to contribute to environmental protection, BulacanSol partnered with Greenearth...
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P56-billion PHL’s 1st supercritical coal-fired power plant switches on in Quezon
By Lenie Lectura | Business Mirror MAUBAN, Quezon—San Buenaventura Power Ltd. Co. (SBPL) inaugurated here the country’s first supercritical coal-fired power plant, providing Luzon 500 megawatts (MW) of additional capacity. The P56.2-billion power plant started...
PH’s most advanced coal plant inaugurated
By Jed Macapagal | Malaya MAUBAN, Quezon Province – San Buenaventura Power Ltd. Co. inaugurated yesterday the Philippines’ first supercritical coal-fired power plant here with a gross capacity of 500 megawatts (MW). The project is a partnership between Meralco...
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...
Duterte orders strict compliance by power plants: Efficiency, environmental standards
By Myrna M. Velasco | Manila Bulletin President Rodrigo Duterte has directed the Department of Energy (DOE) to ensure that the power plants operating in the country are strictly complying with operational efficiency standards as well as on environmental laws...
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...
Quezon power plant gets ERC green light to operate
By Victor V. Saulon | Business World MANILA Electric Co. (Meralco) has secured provisional authority from the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) to start operating San Buenaventura Power Ltd.’s (SBPL) 500-megawatt (MW) coal-fired power plant and provide baseload...
ERC issues PAO to 1st coal-fired plant using supercritical tech
By Lenie Lectura | Business Mirror THE Luzon grid will soon be assured of 500 megawatts (MW) of new power-generation capacity following the issuance of the Provisional Authority to Operate (PAO) the country’s first coal-fired power plant to use supercritical...