Repairs on Mandaue line finished by April 15

Vanessa Claire Lucero 03/03/2016

REPAIRS on a transmission cable along Cortes and Plaridel streets in Mandaue City will be completed on April 15 this year, the National Grid Corp. of the Philippines (NGCP) said yesterday. Ma. Rosette Martinez, NGCP regional corporate…

Solar power use

Editorial 03/03/2016

Provincial Board (PB) Member Joven Mondigo’s suggestion that solar plants be set up in Bantayan Island to resolve its power problems may be a long term solution but the cost of setting it up will take both…

Solar panels power bridge households

Nestle Semilla 03/01/2016

Their continued stay under the Mandaue-Mactan Bridge may be uncertain, but more than 10 families living in the Lapu-Lapu City side don’t have to rely on power lines for their power supply. Factory worker Rolando Navasca, whose…

4 rural barangays in Cebu City now have electricity

Mark Tongco 11/15/2015

A total of 236 households from the four rural barangays in Cebu City now have electricity through the Visayan Electric Company’s (Veco) rural electrification project, which is in cooperation with power companies Kepco Philippines, Cebu Private Power…

Six Veco customers avail of net-metering

05/13/2015

  Installing solar panels in houses or commercial centers is part of Visayan Electric Co.’s net metering scheme. (CDN File Photo) Six residential customers of the Visayan Electric Co., Inc. (Veco) have availed of the “sexy business”…

Veco rates up 40 cents per kilowatt

Flor R. Cartuciano 01/15/2015

The Visayan Electric Company (Veco) has raised by 40 centavos the cost of electricity per kilowatt hour starting January 1, 2015. The adjustment, according to Sebastian Lacson, Veco chief operating officer is because of more expensive power…

Veco may raise rates to P6.20/kWh

Aileen Garcia-Yap 12/10/2014

Expected summer increase due to expiration of 120MW Napocor contract An official of the Visayan Electric Company (Veco) is warning its customers of an expected increase in power rates by summer next year. This is because the…

Veco goes underground

Aileen Garcia-Yap, Jose Santino S. Bunachita 10/29/2014

The Visayan Electric Co. (Veco) yesterday inaugurated its first underground distribution system (UDS) project covering the one-kilometer stretch from the Fuente Osmeña Circle to the Cebu Provincial Capitol. The P70-million project, according to Veco president Jaime Jose…

Typhoon alert: ready to trim trees

Doris C. Bongcac 07/23/2014

WITH typhoon “Inday” coming this weekend, Cebu City City Hall has been swamped with requests to send crews to trim tree branches. A team of five persons equipped with a chainsaw and rope can be fielded, but…

Veco’s net-metering encourages solar generation, power savings

Aileen Garcia-Yap 06/24/2014

The initiative of the Visayan Electric Company to encourage the private sector and home consumers in energy saving has been lauded by the Department of Energy, not just as pioneering but also helping plug the thin power…

More brownouts this week due to power shortage in Visayas grid

Aileen Garcia-Yap 05/19/2014

Cebuanos are facing the prospect of unscheduled brownouts in the next five days after the Cebu-Negros-Panay grid experienced a 200 MW shortage starting today. The Visayan Electric Co (Veco) said three major plants are undergoing unscheduled preventive…

Brownouts loom if plant repair not done this month

Doris C. Bongcac 02/06/2014

Repairs of the geothermal plant in Leyte will have to be completed this month to ensure that the Visayas grid meets a  15 to 20 percent increase in power demand during the summer months, energy officials said…

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