[Vantage Point] As Leandro Leviste cashes out of SPNEC, his private companies remain at the table
Here’s why this matters.
Natural gas can provide useful mid-merit and balancing services. That capability does not justify a uniform gas procurement across grids with different supply conditions and cost structures.
The Lopez group, through First Gen, bought Energy Development Corp. from the government in 2007 and has spent the 19 years since learning how deep the asset actually goes
(3rd UPDATE) Solar’s terminated contracts resulted in more than P10.44 billion in unpaid obligations, says the Ombudsman
Leandro Leviste once vowed that his solar energy franchise would ‘end energy poverty by 2022.’ Look where we are, and where he is.
The Department of Energy’s new rules cover solar systems meant primarily for the consumer’s own electricity use rather than for selling power back to the grid under a net-metering program
The sale comes as Leviste faces plunder and graft complaints before the Ombudsman alongside his mother, Senator Loren Legarda, and former energy secretary Alfonso Cusi over roughly P10 billion in solar projects
Tesla’s solar roof was an experiment that never really caught on for the company. But does that mean the concept of roof-integrated solar is dead?
Senator Loren Legarda’s defense that ‘no public funds were involved’ does not fully dispose of the controversy. Public resources are not confined to money released from the Treasury.
Tesla wants to build a massive solar factory in Texas, but first it wants the state to chip in to defray the costs.