Aquino inaugurates controversial coal-fired power plant in Iloilo | Inquirer News

Aquino inaugurates controversial coal-fired power plant in Iloilo

/ 01:32 PM April 01, 2011

ILOILO CITY, Philippines – President Benigno Aquino III on Friday inaugurated a P20-billion, 164-megawatt coal-fired power plant in Iloilo City’s La Paz District, citing the plant as a great boost to the entire Visayas power grid.

The President said that with the operation of the Panay Energy Development Corp.’s facility in Barangay Ingore, daily rotational brownouts in the Visayas would end.

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