Press Releases
MGen, project companies support the fight against COVID-19; turn over PhP1.5 Million worth of goods to Quezon province
MGen and SBPL on May 1 turned over PhP1.5 Million worth of relief support to Quezon Provincial Government. In the photo are Patrick Collantes of MGen/A1E, Ma. Christina Talavera of the Office of Gov. Danilo Suarez, and Chuckie Rivera of SBPL. Meralco PowerGen...
MGen site activities suspended
In line with President Rodrigo Duterte’s order on the enhanced community quarantine in Luzon amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Meralco PowerGen Corporation (MGen) would like to announce that activities at sites owned by its project companies have been suspended since...
MGreen unit signs EPC contract for 50MWac Bulacan Solar Project
PowerSource First Bulacan Solar, Inc. (PFBSI) on Friday executed an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract with SUMEC Complete Equipment & Engineering Co. Ltd. for its solar power project. The contract covers a 50-MWac solar plant in San Miguel,...
SBPL switches on PH’s most advanced coal power plant; boosts Luzon supply with 500 MW
San Buenaventura Power Ltd. Co. (SBPL) on Wednesday marked the commercial operations of its new 500-Megawatt (MW) supercritical coal-fired power plant with a Switch-On Celebration led by Philippine President Rodrigo R. Duterte. In his speech, President Duterte...
MGreen gets funding for solar projects
MGEN Renewable Energy, Inc. (MGreen) has secured equity funding amounting to P424 million that will be used to invest in various solar projects under development. These solar projects have a combined capacity of 210 megawatts (MW) and total combined project cost of...
In the News
‘Double whammy’ poses power woes
Imagination means savings Meralco PowerGen president Rogelio Singson counts the many ways to save energy amid a power deficiency as summer season begins. ROY PELOVELLO The energy shortfall is expected to last until June mainly as a result of increased...
Plant tied up; power runs short
Meralco PowerGen president and chief executive officer Rogelio Singson The Manila Electric Co. (Meralco) is back in the power business through a subsidiary. However, it is going through legal hurdles to get its projects going in Luzon that now contends...
Atimonan project costs rise by P15B due to PSA approval delay
MERALCO Powergen Corp. (MGen) said the continuing delay in the approval of the power supply contract for its Atimonan coal-fired power plant had jacked up the project’s cost by P15 billion. “If my numbers are correct, I think nasa mga (it’s at about) P15 billion, kasi...
MGen shifts focus to hiking renewable energy capacity
The power generating arm of Manila Electric Co. (Meralco) will focus on developing its renewable energy (RE) capacity of 1,500 megawatts (MW) in the next three to five years as it looks to disrupt its own legacy distribution business, its top official said. Meralco...
Meralco unit eyes 1,500MW RE capacity
A SUBSIDIARY of Manila Electric Co. (Meralco) is targeting to build a renewable energy (RE) portfolio of 1,500 megawatts (MW) over the next three to five years. At the sidelines of the Wednesday Roundtable at Lido Cocina Tsina in Quezon City, Meralco PowerGen Corp....