MERALCO POWERGEN CORP. (MGen) is likely to comprise the biggest portion of its investments in renewables before 2030, according to the firm’s top official.

COMPANIES are supporting the Energy department’s initiative of looking into liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal projects as one of the opportunities to source power for the country. 

THE GOVERNMENT must play a more proactive role in ensuring energy security and take on its social responsibility of assuring sufficient power, according to energy industry stakeholders.

RENEWABLE ENERGY made cheaper by economies of scale over the past decade will be made even less expensive, except at a slower pace, industry participants said.

THE COUNTRY’s biofuels industry still needs fine-tuning to achieve its full potential amid issues on pricing and supply, experts and participants in the sector said.

“Any advertising that would tend to draw crowds is to be refrained from,” a notice read, advising business owners to “(a)void crowding your store” and to “(k)eep all clean and sanitary,” while another noted that those “who generally throng the shops at this season of the year are staying home; but, on the other hand, a much bigger business is being done in delivery orders.”(1)

IT’S BEEN about a year and a half since the first hard lockdown was declared in March 2020, and everyone has spent the past months basically winging it, with no firm roadmap emerging as yet for how the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has reordered the world, or for how it may be about to reorder it some more before everything is done.

INFRASTRUCTURE COMPANIES are focused on finding new opportunities as they contend with pandemic disruptions to their operations as some construction markets dry up, while juggling an imminent full-scale migration to innovative building methods and data-driven processes.

THE PANDEMIC highlighted digital connectivity as a need and not a want, on par with basics like food, water and electricity.

AFTER HIS MOTHER was diagnosed as terminally ill with cancer, it was time for Kenneth Tirado to come home. With the pandemic leaving many industries no choice but to work from home, he flew to Iloilo in March and from there was able to continue what he had been doing in Quezon City.

How can businesses bounce back better after the pandemic?

March 15, 2020 will be long remembered as the date people living in the lockdown zone lost their freedom of movement. But when the fallout from the pandemic clears and with the perspective afforded by time and ample reflection, it may also be viewed as a turning point for how people live, play, study, travel, consume — and perhaps most salient of all, work.