Butane canisters spark road fire, calls to ban refilling renewed

Carmel Loise Matus, Rabboni Centino Borbon, Rene F. Alima 08/11/2016

A delivery truck loaded with butane canisters exploded early morning yesterday at the South Coastal Road near the South Road Properties (SRP) after it rammed into a school bus, leaving behind a trail of destruction which a…

Two Iloilo coal-fired plants to boost power in Visayas

Victor Anthony V. Silva 07/27/2016

New power plants can add at least 200 MW to Visayas grid when completed Two coal-fired power plants set to operate within the year are seen to boost the capacity of the Visayas Grid and offset supply…

Gov’t told: Reduce greenhouse gases in other areas instead

Victor Anthony V. Silva 07/20/2016

Cebu biz leaders back DOE stand on building more power plants to sustain economic dev’t With the Department of Energy (DOE) saying that the country needs to build more baseload power plants to push the nation’s economic…

DSWD-7 launches second database of poor households

06/29/2016

THE Department of Social Welfare and Development in Central Visayas (DSWD-7) launched its second Listahanan Database for Central Visayas at the Cebu Parklane International Hotel on Monday morning. Formerly known as the National Household Targeting System for…

Clear choice

Editorial 04/27/2016

A Department of Energy (DOE) statement saying there’s no such thing as “clean coal”, let alone “clean coal technology,” refutes a point made by Liberal Party (LP) standard-bearer Manuel “Mar” Roxas II during last Sunday’s presidential debate.…

Earth Hour marked; gov’t exec hopes to save more than 34MW this year

Vanessa Claire Lucero 03/19/2016

THE regional director of the Department of Energy (DOE) hopes to exceed the 34 megawatts (MW) of energy saved in last year’s Earth Hour celebration in Central Visayas. “Last year, we saved as much as 34 MW…

Renewable energy sources eyed in Bantayan

Victor Anthony V. Silva 03/01/2016

ELECTRICITY was back on Bantayan Island yesterday, but the situation remained critical because of the lack of power reserves. Cebu Gov. Hilario Davide III, who visited the island yesterday together with Department of Energy Visayas (DOE) director…

Open access starts June, ‘but mind the line rentals’

Vanessa Claire Lucero 03/01/2016

By June 26 this year, electricity consumers who use at least 1,000 kilowatts, or one megawatt, a month will be able to choose their suppliers under an open access regime. The Department of Energy (DOE) targets to…

Visayas needs additional power plants after 2017

Vanessa Claire Lucero 12/22/2015

The Visayas will have enough power supply next year, but additional capacity would be needed toward the end of 2017, a Department of Energy (DOE) official said. Engineer Saul Gonzales, chief of the Energy Industry Management division,…

DOE to fine butane station owner, but no mass confiscation

Marc Eric Cosep 11/26/2015

THE Department of Energy (DOE) will file an administrative case against the owner of the butane refilling station whose eight employees were injured by a butane canister explosion last November 3. ( Read :Eight injured in butane…

DOE sets crackdown against LPG refillers using butane cans

Jose Santino S. Bunachita, Vanessa Claire Lucero 11/20/2015

The Department of Energy (DOE) is seeking the help of the police and the Cebu City inter-agency task force in going after enterprises and individuals who refill butane canisters with liquefied petroleum gas (LPG). DOE 7 has…

After fire butane crackdown

Apple Ta-as, Jhunnex Napallacan 11/19/2015

A FIRE  investigation is underway to determine if Tuesday’s blaze that left more than 500 homeless in barangay Alaska Mambaling, Cebu City was caused by an unattended cooking fire using a refilled butane canister or electrical misuse.…

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