EDC snags top honor at 55th Anvil Awards
Energy Development Corporation received its most number of Anvil awards in one year aside from bagging the Grand Anvil award for its Baslay Coffee Project. EDC’s awards were received by its Chief Finance Officer Erwin Avante; Regina Victoria Pascual, Corporate Support Functions Head; Atty. Allan Barcena, CSR-PR Head; Norreen Bautista, Negros CSR Head, Nancy Ibuna, […]
Is renewable energy unreliable? and other questions about RE answered
MANILA, Philippines – The world is well aware of the dangers of climate change. It’s good for the environment but can it really power homes and businesses 24/7? Just this March, Greta Thunberg, a 15-year-old Swedish kid, sparked a climate revolution led by children like herself around the globe. It’s dubbed as the […]
Looking climate change straight in the eye
MANILA, Philippines – At least 90 people were killed by natural calamities in September. The bunkhouse chapel that a mining community ran to for refuge during the onslaught of Typhoon Ompong (international name Mangkhut) was squashed and buried after a massive landslide hit Barangay Ucab in Itogon, Benguet. Five days after, another landslide hit […]
Energy Development Corporation wins national safety award
Energy Development Corporation’s Health, Environment, and Safety team led by Joel Handugan, Ronnie Andador, Drigo Rizo, Engellau Flores, and Paulo Gooco received the company’s national occupational safety and health award from the Department of Labor and Employment at the 11th Gawad Kaligtasan at Kalusugan Awarding Ceremony. Lopez-owned and geothermal leader Energy Development Corporation (EDC) […]
EDC and UP-IB release Wildlife Treasures
A chronicle of the wildlife in EDC’s geothermal and hydro areas: EDC, led by its President & COO Richard B. Tantoco and partners DENR Assistant Secretary Ricardo L. Calderon, UPLB College of Agriculture Professor Dr. Susan Aquino-Ong, UP-IB Director Ian Kendrich C. Fontanilla, UP Diliman College of Science Dean Giovanni A. Tapang, UPLB College of […]
Tribal communities hold thanksgiving ceremony for geothermal benefits received
MADADMA Council of Elders Datu Damaso Bayawan, Datu Romeo Malibon, Datu Timuey Jonathan Abel, Datu Fedirico Sia, and Datu Brigido Baroro, Jr., together with the Barangay Tribal Council (BTC) of Barangays Ilomavis and Balabag in Kidapawan City and Barangay Kawayan in Magpet held their Samaya thanksgiving ritual for the benefits that they have received as […]
EDC to directly remit ER1-94 benefits to Leyte beneficiaries this year
Beneficiaries of Lopez-owned and geothermal leader Energy Development Corporation (EDC) in Ormoc and Kananga, Leyte will soon reap the benefits of hosting its geothermal plants directly from the company after recently signing a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) to establish trust accounts for their accrued financial benefits. The MOA between EDC and its beneficiaries will […]
EDC continues to reforest Mount Talinis
Geothermal energy needs lush forests to recharge its reservoir. Without trees to hold and release water deep into the earth, geothermal steam fields will dry up and will not be able to produce enough steam to run its power plants. For this reason, geothermal leader Energy Development Corporation (EDC) has been planting, growing, and maintaining […]
EDC one of top-performing PH companies in human rights disclosure
Lopez-led and premier renewable energy company Energy Development Corporation (EDC), a subsidiary of First Gen Corporation, is taking the lead in aligning its human rights disclosures with the United Nations Guiding Principles (UNGP) on Business and Human Rights (BHR). Endorsed by the UN Human Rights Council in 2011, the UNGPs direct both states and […]
EDC, partners give Christmas packs to over 3,000 earthquake victims in Cotabato
Over 3,000 residents of Barangay Ilomavis in Kidapawan City, North Cotabato will still get to celebrate Christmas despite the strong earthquakes that hit their province and other parts of Mindanao this October and early December, thanks to the Noche Buena packs that geothermal leader Energy Development Corporation (EDC) and its partners, Manobo Apao Descendants Ancestral […]