Proven coal areas face tougher bidding rules
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Latest Daily Tribune news and analysis on coal moratorium.
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The DoE cancels the 2026 coal bidding round, including Semirara Island, to revise contract rules and secure better economic returns for the government.
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The Department of Energy will keep its moratorium on new coal plants while fast-tracking pre-2019 approved coal projects to boost power supply and ease…
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The Philippine government is set to open Semirara Island’s coal mining operations to competitive bidding ahead of the 2027 contract expiry, putting Semirara…
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Meralco PowerGen Corp. is set to break ground on its 73-MW coal-fired power plant in Toledo, Cebu in early 2026, while advancing a complementary battery energy…
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The country is grappling with the high cost of renewable energy (RE) and the slow pace of its development, prompting energy companies to delay their shift away…
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Field reports from 2023-2024 indicated full-scale commercial mining, with daily convoys of 35-ton trucks hauling coal from Ned to Maitum.
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Daguma Agro Minerals’ Lake Sebu coal project plans to increase output from 3 to 5 million metric tons, sparking regulatory review and community concerns.
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Pedrosa emphasized that even the DoE’s 14 October 2025 advisory, which expanded the exemptions to the coal moratorium, cannot justify the Atimonan coal plant…
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The case filed before the Office of the Ombudsman against Secretary Sharon Garin concerns alleged violations of the Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act…
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Abrupt RE scaling increases risks of blackouts, as seen in last year’s unplanned outages at fossil plants that spiked prices 20 to 30 percent.
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Coal Asia major shareholders, Dexter Y. Tiu, Eric Peter Y. Roxas, Gertim G. Chuahiong, Alexander Y. Tiu, and John L. Capinpin has entered into a Share Purchase…
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Meralco PowerGen Corp. (MGen), the power generation arm of the Manila Electric Co., through MGEN Thermal, is targeting the completion of its 73-megawatt (MW)…
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The stabilizing coal prices and losses from its cement business weighed down the first-quarter net income of DMCI Holdings, Inc., the diversified engineering…
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Japan’s Mitsubishi Corp. and its subsidiary, Diamond Generating Asia (DGA), have joined a multinational effort to retire a 246-megawatt coal plant in the…
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Consunji-led Semirara Mining and Power Corp. (SMPC) is targeting full-scale production at its Acacia coal mine by 2026, as the company moves forward with its…
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