UNA seeing ‘daang madilim’ on May 13
By Christian V. Esguerra
Will another massive power interruption leave voters literally in the dark on Monday?
Will another massive power interruption leave voters literally in the dark on Monday?
Two electricity consumers in Albay filed on Friday a petition asking the Regional Trial Court here to issue a temporary restraining order (TRO) to prevent the interim board of the Albay Electric Cooperative (Aleco) from implementing the privatization of the debt-ridden electric cooperative.
There will be no more irritating daily four-hour brownouts in this province by August, but residents will have to pay as much as P10 per kilowatt hour for electricity to defray the cost of operating modular generating sets.
A South Korean power company is eyeing to build a $22-million (P895.84 million) biomass power plant in Iloilo that is expected to boost the supply of energy on Panay Island.
The Court of Tax Appeals has ordered the Tuguegarao City Regional Trial Court to hear the protest of the National Power Corporation (Napocor) regarding the Cagayan’s claim that it is liable to pay P20.8 million franchise tax from 2001 to 2007.
The Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) has asked the Court of Appeals (CA) to reconsider a Jan. 30 ruling invalidating the lease development agreement and the environmental compliance certificate (ECC) of a consortium of energy firms that proposes to put up a coal-fired power plant inside this free port.
Millions of people in Mindanao, who have been grappling with power interruptions lasting for hours every day, must accept the reality of paying more for electricity or having none at all, President Benigno Aquino III said Tuesday.
For most people in Mindanao, every day is Earth Hour Day. Maria Chuchi Siva, a 41-year-old mother of two, complained that the frequent power outages in Zamboanga City are hurting her family’s finances.
President Aquino on Thursday sounded cool to the idea of using emergency powers to deal with brownouts in Mindanao, but he assured the public that there would be an adequate power supply on Election Day on May 13.
Consider yourselves lucky. Residents of Davao del Sur were told to grin and bear three-hour daily outages because the situation could be worse.
A power failure at Japan’s tsunami-crippled Fukushima nuclear plant forced operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. to suspend systems to cool spent fuel pools at three reactor units, a report said Tuesday.
Apart from being the start of the work week, Mondays in many areas of Mindanao also signal the start of another episode of frequent brownouts.
It’s a race to the bottom—and the most energy-efficient lifestyle. To help mitigate the effects of climate change, the Pasay City government is challenging residents to significantly reduce power consumption in the next nine months.
