Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Website. www.meralco.com.ph. The Manila Electric Company (PSE: MER), also known as Meralco (/ mɜːrɑːlkoʊ /, Tagalog: [mɛˈɾalkɔ], stylized in uppercase), is an electric power distribution company in the Philippines. It is Metro Manila 's only electric power distributor and holds the power distribution franchise for 39 cities and 72 ...
500V overhead line. Track length (single) 32.8 km (20.4 mi) [note 2] Track length (double) 12.7 km (7.9 mi) [note 2] Track length (total) 45.4 km (28.2 mi) [note 2] The tranvía was a streetcar system that served Manila and its surrounding cities during the early years of the 20th century.
With the American takeover of the Philippines, the Philippine Commission allowed the Manila Electric Railroad and Light Company (Meralco) to take over the properties of the Compañia de los Tranvias de Filipinas, [21] with the first of twelve mandated electric tranvia (tram) lines operated by MERALCO opening in Manila in 1905. [22]
Ortigas Avenue, 1605, Pasig, Philippines. Coordinates. 14°35′23″N 121°04′14″E / 14.58975°N 121.07045°E / 14.58975; 121.07045. Website. www.mfi.org.ph. MFI Foundation Inc. (formerly Meralco Foundation, Inc.) is a non-stock, non-profit science foundation based in Pasig, Metro Manila, Philippines. The MFI Farm Business ...
Meralco was established as the Manila Electric Railroad and Light Company in 1903. It was created to provide light and an electric railway system to Manila. During World War II the transportation infrastructure of Meralco was destroyed and instead of rebuilding the railway, the company focused its efforts onto its electric services.
Lopez Holdings Corporation (formerly primarily as Benpres Holdings Corporation from June 8, 1993 to July 21, 2010 and secondarily from July 21, 2010 to 2019, and also known as Lopez, Inc.) is a Filipino conglomerate founded by the brothers Eugenio Lopez, Sr. and Fernando Lopez, Sr. It has substantial holdings in the public service and utilities ...
Charles M. Swift. Charles May Swift (1854-1929) was the American businessman who founded Meralco, the largest electric utility and one of the leading companies of the Philippines, founded as the Manila Electric Railroad and Light Company, composed largely of Detroit and Pittsburght capital. Swift also founded the Philippine Railway Company Inc ...
The Light Rail Transit Authority (LRTA) is a public transport operator that is responsible for the construction, operation, maintenance and/or lease of Manila Light Rail Transit System in the Philippines. It is organized as a government-owned and controlled corporation under the Department of Transportation (DOTr) as an attached agency.