Energy Secretary Jericho Petilla on Friday called on oil companies to use their own generator sets for their operations at the gas stations, oil depots and similar facilities on Monday to ensure adequate power supply during the election.
Conservation groups have mounted a signature campaign to stop a planned construction of a coal-fired power facility beside Rasa Island in southern Palawan, which is considered as the last remaining habitat of the critically endangered Palawan Cockatoo.
The massive blackout that hit areas in Metro Manila other Luzon regions Wednesday was caused by “unplanned outage” of five power plants supplying electricity to the Luzon grid, the National Grid Corp. said.
State-run National Power Corp. on Monday warned that the continued decrease of the water level at Lake Lanao would force it to limit the power generation from the 700-megawatt Agus power complex starting next month.
The National Grid Corp. of the Philippines (NGCP) is seeking regulatory approval to undertake a P36-billion Cebu-Negros-Panay interconnection project, to prepare the grid for an additional 491 megawatts of new capacity coming in by 2016.
The power problem in Mindanao getting worse.
Greenpeace said the uptake of coal-fired technology was not the solution to the “looming power crisis” in Mindanao, as it urged government to reconsider its renewable energy options.
Six of the 10 councilors of Pantabangan, Nueva Ecija, have questioned what they described as a takeover of the Pantabangan Municipal Electric System (Pames) by a private firm.
A small Aeta community in a remote part of this province got its first taste of a Christmas party Thursday courtesy of the Philippine Army’s Training and Doctrine (Tradoc) Command.
The scourge of businesses and homes in Mindanao, power outages, has returned. Daily outages of up to three hours have started to plague consumers in Mindanao following the shutdown of a coal plant in Misamis Oriental that supplies 105 megawatts of electricity. Officials said the plant stopped operations for maintenance work.
As the cost of petroleum fuel rises, the Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) is studying the viability of rice straw as a source of alternative energy, officials said on Tuesday.
Mayor Romeo Borja Sr. was a no-show at a Monday dialogue requested by civic leaders and residents who gathered at the municipal hall to demand an explanation why power supply in the town was cut off on July 23.
A massive power cut blacked out a vast swathe of northern India early Monday, affecting hundreds of millions of people in nine states including the capital New Delhi, officials said.
