EXPECTING A tight power supply in the fourth quarter, the Department of Energy has started mobilizing short-term solutions for Mindanao, including the possible rehabilitation of power plants currently placed under “preservation” mode. “We had an emergency meeting to discuss the current power situation as well as make preparations for the power requirements in the last quarter [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Mindanao’
Mindanao power supply critical; gov’t acts to avert crisis (9/23/2010)
Posted in Inquirer News, tagged Mindanao, Power shortage on September 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Aboitiz proposes four new hydropower plants (4/23/2010)
Posted in Business World News, tagged Aboitiz, Generation, Hydro energy, Investments, Mindanao on September 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Aboitiz unit Hedcor, Inc. is finalizing plans for four more hydroelectric plants with generating capacity of roughly 40 megawatts (MW). Two of the new plants will be along Sibulan River in Sta. Cruz, Davao del Sur, where the company is already operating a 26.5-MW hydropower facility. The other two will be in Compostela Valley and [...]
Power supply uncertainty returns (9/22/2010)
Posted in Business World News, tagged Mindanao, Power shortage, Power supply on September 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
KORONADAL/CAGAYAN DE ORO — Mindanao, which has never fully recovered from the crippling power outages that hit amid the dry spell in the first half, faces renewed uncertainty as the new wave of rotating hours-long brownouts that started last Sept. 13 persists. A check with the Web site of the National Grid Corporation of the [...]
Mindanao traders cite urgent need for more power plants (9/20/2010)
Posted in Philippine Star News, tagged Hydro energy, Investments, Mindanao, Power supply on September 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Big Mindanao-based business leaders are calling for the construction of additional generating capacities throughout the island. Ralph Paguio, chairman of the Cagayan de Oro City Chamber of Commerce and Industry, said Mindanao needs to “power up” to meet the growing demand of power supply and to veer away from too much reliance on hydroelectric dams [...]
Solar energy gives electricity to Sulu town (9/20/2010)
Posted in Inquirer News, tagged AMORE, Mindanao, Solar energy on September 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
It took light years for Old Panamao, a town in mainland Sulu, to get light. The town, last August, was finally connected to electricity, thanks to a project providing subsidized home solar energy kits to households outside the power grid. The Alliance for Mindanao Off-grid renewable energy Program (Amore) has been providing electricity to towns outside [...]
Mindanao needs 500 MW in non-hydro power capacity (9/20/2010)
Posted in Inquirer News, tagged Coal, Generation, Hydro energy, Mindanao, Power supply on September 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Energy Secretary Jose Rene D. Almendras wants the Mindanao grid to have at least 500 megawatts (MW) in baseload generation capacity from non-hydro sources such as coal, to insulate the island from severe power outages and unstable supply in the near future. “Our problem in Mindanao is our overdependence on hydropower,” Almendras said. With climate [...]
Ensuring sufficient power tagged as top priority (9/17/2010)
Posted in Business World News, tagged Mindanao, Power supply on September 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
DAVAO CITY — In his first visit to Davao Region since assuming office, President Benigno Simeon C. Aquino III said he has ordered the Energy department to a chart long-term road map to maximize use of other energy sources to solve Mindanao’s lack of electricity. “By the time I leave office, it is my hope [...]
Aboitiz opens hydro plant, eyes coal (9/17/2010)
Posted in Business World News, tagged Aboitiz, Coal, Generation, Hydro energy, Mindanao on September 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
LISTED ABOITIZ Power Corp. opened its new hydroelectric power plant in Davao yesterday, in a bid to meet increasing power demand in the region. The 42.5-megawatt (MW) Sibulan hydropower plant in Davao del Sur was formally launched yesterday with President Benigno Simeon C. Aquino III as guest of honor. Aboitiz Power President and Chief Executive [...]
Renewable energy for South pushed (9/16/2010)
Posted in Business World News, tagged Mindanao, Renewable energy on September 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
PRESIDENT BENIGNO C. Aquino III has ordered the Department of Energy to create a long-term energy road map to ensure reliable power supply, particularly in Mindanao, by tapping renewable sources. Mr. Aquino, in his address at the launch of the Sibulan hydroelectric power plant in Davao del Sur on Thursday, cited possible alternative sources to [...]
S. Mindanao to experience rotating brownouts due to power line repair (9/13/2010)
Posted in Business World News, tagged Mindanao, NGCP, Power supply on September 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Portions of Southern Mindanao will experience rotating brownouts starting today due to the repair of a major distribution line, according to an advisory issued by the National Grid Corp. of the Philippines (NGCP) to affected distribution utilities in the island. In a letter sent to power distributors at the weekend, the private operator of the [...]
