Energy Regulatory Commission Philippines (disambiguation)

• Energy Regulatory Commission (Philippines)

  Also: ERC, (successor to the Energy Regulatory Board, ERB)

  The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) is an independent, quasi-judicial body regulating the electric power industry in the Philippines. Created on 8 June 2001 upon the…

• Green Energy Auction Program

  Also: GEAP, Green Energy Auction, GEA

  The Green Energy Auction Program (GEAP) is the Department of Energy's competitive procurement program for renewable energy capacity in the Philippines, conducted through successive numbered…

• National Renewable Energy Board

  Also: NREB

  The National Renewable Energy Board (NREB) is the Philippine government's standing advisory and policy-coordination body for renewable energy, created by Section 27 of the Renewable…

• Commission on Human Rights (Philippines)

  Also: CHR — the standard Philippine abbreviation, Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines — the international-style styling, The constitutional Commission on Human Rights — the usage distinguishing it from the United Nations commission of the same 1946–2006 name

  The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) is the independent constitutional office that the 1987 Constitution ordains in Article XIII, Section 17 — "There is hereby…

• National Grid Corporation of the Philippines

  Also: NGCP (usual initialism), The grid operator (common shorthand in industry reporting), TransCo concessionaire (functional description under EPIRA)

  The National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) is the private corporation that operates, maintains, and expands the Philippines' electricity transmission system — the high-voltage…

• Renewable Energy Act of 2008

  Also: RE Act, Renewable Energy Act, Republic Act No. 9513

  The Renewable Energy Act of 2008, formally Republic Act No. 9513 — "An Act Promoting the Development, Utilization and Commercialization of Renewable Energy Resources and…

• Fuel Pricing in the Philippines

  Also: Pump prices, Oil price hike (the standard Philippine news term for a weekly increase), Oil price rollback (the counterpart term for a weekly cut)

  Fuel pricing in the Philippines is the process by which retail pump prices for gasoline, diesel, kerosene, and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) are set in…

• Shell Philippines

  Also: Shell Pilipinas Corporation, Pilipinas Shell Petroleum Corporation (PSPC, former corporate name, used 2016–2023), Shell Pilipinas Corporation (SPC, present corporate name)

  Shell Philippines is the Philippine downstream business of Britain's Shell plc, operated by Shell Pilipinas Corporation (PSE: SHLPH) — the company known from its 2016…

• 3M Philippines

  Also: 3M Philippines, Inc., 3M PH, Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing (Philippines)

  3M Philippines (3M Philippines, Inc.) is the Philippine subsidiary of 3M Company, the American diversified technology and manufacturing conglomerate originally incorporated as the Minnesota Mining…

• Development Bank of the Philippines

  Also: DBP, Development Bank of the Philippines, Rehabilitation Finance Corporation (historical, 1947–1958)

  The Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP) is a government-owned development bank and the country's principal state instrument for long-term development financing — lending for…

• Energy Regulatory Commission

  Also: ERC, Energy Regulatory Commission (Philippines), The Commission (ERC usage in its issuances)

  The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) is the Philippines' independent, quasi-judicial regulatory body for the electric power industry, created by Section 38 of the Electric Power…

• Land Transportation Office (Philippines)

  Also: Land Transportation Office, LTO, LTO Philippines

  The Land Transportation Office (LTO) is a regulatory agency of the Philippine government under the Department of Transportation. The LTO is responsible for licensing drivers,…

• Petron Bataan Refinery

  Also: Bataan Refinery

  The Petron Bataan Refinery (also called the Bataan Refinery) is an oil refinery in Limay, Bataan, Philippines, owned and operated by Petron Corporation, and the…

• Republic Act No. 9136 (Electric Power Industry Reform Act of 2001)

  Also: EPIRA, Electric Power Industry Reform Act, RA 9136

  Republic Act No. 9136, the Electric Power Industry Reform Act of 2001 (EPIRA), is the law that restructured the Philippine electric power industry by breaking…

• Philippine Electricity Market Corporation

  Also: PEMC

  The Philippine Electricity Market Corporation (PEMC) is the non-stock, non-profit corporation that governs the Wholesale Electricity Spot Market (WESM), the Philippines' trading venue for electricity…

• Zuellig Pharma

  Also: Zuellig Pharma Corporation, F. E. Zuellig, Inc.

  Zuellig Pharma is a leading integrated healthcare-solutions company serving Asia, established in the Philippines in 1922, which grew from a Swiss family trading house in…

• DMCI Holdings

  Also: DMCI Holdings, Inc., DMCI Holdings Incorporated

  DMCI Holdings, Inc. (Philippine Stock Exchange ticker DMC) is the listed holding company of the Consunji family, incorporated on March 8, 1995 to consolidate the…

• Philippine National Oil Company

  Also: PNOC

  The Philippine National Oil Company (PNOC) is the Philippine government's oil and energy state enterprise, created by Presidential Decree No. 334 on November 9, 1973…

• National Transmission Corporation

  Also: TransCo, TRANSCO, National Transmission Company

  The National Transmission Corporation (TransCo) is the Philippine government-owned and -controlled corporation that owns the country's high-voltage electricity transmission grid — the towers, lines, substations,…

• Electric Power Industry Reform Act of 2001 (EPIRA)

  The Electric Power Industry Reform Act of 2001, officially Republic Act No. 9136 and commonly abbreviated EPIRA, is the Philippine law that restructured the electric…

• National Academy of Science and Technology

  Also: NAST Philippines (official short form), NAST (abbreviation)

  The National Academy of Science and Technology (NAST Philippines) is the country's highest advisory body on science and technology, composed of distinguished scientists elected as…

• National Electrification Administration

  The National Electrification Administration (NEA) is a Philippine government-owned and controlled corporation created by Republic Act No. 6093 in 1969, mandated to pursue the total…

• Philippine Nuclear Research Institute

  The Philippine Nuclear Research Institute (PNRI) is a research and development institute under the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) mandated to undertake research and…

• Sual Power Station

  Also: Sual Coal-Fired Thermal Power Plant (CFTPP) — the formal designation of the operator record, Sual power plant — the everyday Philippine news usage, Sual CFTPP / Sual coal plant — the abbreviated forms

  The Sual Power Station — the Sual Coal-Fired Thermal Power Plant (CFTPP) — is a coal-fired power station of roughly 1,200 megawatts at Sual, Pangasinan,…

• Pilipinas Shell Petroleum Corporation

  Also: PSPC — the standard abbreviation of the corporate name, The Shell Refining Company (Philippines), Inc. — the original 1959 corporate name, Shell Pilipinas Corporation (SPC) — the present corporate name, adopted 2023

  Pilipinas Shell Petroleum Corporation (PSPC) was for decades the corporate name of Shell's refining and marketing arm in the Philippines — the company that operated…

• Bataan Nuclear Power Plant

  Also: BNPP — the standard initials of Philippine energy policy, The Morong nuclear plant — the locational styling, The Bataan nuclear plant — the common short form

  The Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP) is the 621-megawatt Westinghouse pressurized-water reactor built by the National Power Corporation on a 3.57-square-kilometer reservation at Napot Point,…

• Davao Light and Power Company

  Also: Davao Light, Davao Light and Power Company, Inc. (full corporate name), DLPC

  The Davao Light and Power Company, Inc. (Davao Light; DLPC) is the electric distribution utility serving Davao City and adjoining areas of Davao del Norte…

• Public Service Act

  Also: Commonwealth Act No. 146 (CA 146), Public Service Law (style used in early compilations), An Act to Reorganize the Public Service Commission, Prescribe Its Powers and Duties... (long title)

  The Public Service Act, officially Commonwealth Act No. 146, is the 1936 Philippine statute — approved on November 7, 1936 and signed by President Manuel…

• Malampaya Gas-to-Power Project

  Also: Malampaya Deep Water Gas-to-Power Project, Malampaya–Camago field, Malampaya gas field

  The Malampaya Gas-to-Power Project is the Philippines' first and only commercial natural gas venture, a deep-water gas-condensate field in Service Contract 38 (SC 38) off…

• Wholesale Electricity Spot Market

  Also: WESM (usual initialism in the power industry and in EPIRA), Wholesale Electricity Spot Market of the Philippines, The spot market (industry shorthand)

  The Wholesale Electricity Spot Market (WESM) is the Philippines' spot market for electricity, created by Section 30 of the Electric Power Industry Reform Act of…

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