COMPANIES interested in the five regional airport maintenance contracts under the public-private partnership (PPP) scheme — worth a combined P108.19 billion — have been granted two additional weeks to prepare their bids, the Transportation department said.
THE DEPARTMENT of Agriculture (DA) plans to meet with banana exporters this month to address the call to review tariffs imposed on the products shipped to Japan, the agency’s chief said yesterday.
THE NATIONAL Renewable Energy Board (NREB) wants the government to put a cap on every solar and wind project that will be enrolled under the feed-in tariff (FIT) scheme, to allow more developers to avail of the guaranteed tariff.
AS PART of a EUR4-million grant from the German government development agency, the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) yesterday launched a mobile app design contest for local small-scale businesses to improve operations while ensuring “green growth.”
THE PHILIPPINES may find it difficult to sustain its streak of positive export growth this year due to sluggish global demand and base effects from 2014, an analyst at DBS Bank Ltd. yesterday said.
THE ENERGY sector has been identified as a focus area of the continued bilateral exchange between the European Union (EU) and the Philippines over the next few years, officials said yesterday.
VISAYAS BUSINESS leaders are expected to tackle the island group’s investment potential at a conference tomorrow, pursuing unity given the recent creation of a new region in their midst.
THE COUNTRY’S major grain stocks rose at the beginning of June, compared with the same period last year, but fell below the inventory recorded in May, according to the Philippine Statistics Authority — Bureau of Agricultural Statistics (PSA-BAS).
THE DEPARTMENT of Justice (DoJ) Office for Competition (OFC) has recommended a review of the present Suggested Retail Price (SRP) mechanism, saying that it has removed incentives to compete on price.
Sadly, it is typhoon and habagat (monsoon) season again. It is usually at this season that our country suffers the brunt of some of the strongest typhoons to make landfall. Typhoons, according to the experts, are getting stronger as a result of climate change. Thus, in an effort to reduce the effects of climate change, renewable energy (RE) sources are highly encouraged by the government. Currently, RE sources available in the Philippines include hydro power, ocean energy, geothermal, wind, solar, and biomass, such as bagasse and palay husk.