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…

Biggest solar project in SE Asia inaugurated in Negros Occidental

03/03/2016

THE largest solar project in Southeast Asia and the 7th in the world was inaugurated in Cadiz City, Negros Occidental on Thursday. The solar generation facility of Helios Solar Energy Corp. was expected to generate 132.5 megawatt…

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…

Solar plants eyed for Bantayan

Victor Anthony V. Silva 02/29/2016

The installation of solar power plants in Bantayan Island could help resolve the long-term power needs of the area, Provincial Board (PB) Member Joven Mondigo Jr. said yesterday. The PB approved a resolution filed by Mondigo asking…

14-hr power outages in Medellin tomorrow

Vanessa Claire Lucero 02/06/2016

The National Grid Corp. of the Philippines (NGCP) has announced that a series of power interruptions will take place tomorrow, Feb. 7. The scheduled power interruptions, lasting from 4 a.m. to 6 p.m., are caused by the…

The humility of peace

Raymund Fernandez 11/18/2015

It always bothers him to think how easily the world is changed by people who would do what few others are willing to do, acts so unthinkable they qualify as inhuman. And he wonders: What can move…

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…

SC voids Naga power deal

Marites Villamor Ilano 11/09/2015

SPC to appeal; Therma Visayas insists it won the bidding The Supreme Court has nullified the sale of the 153.1-megawatt Naga power plant complex in southern Cebu to SPC Power Corp. SPC said it will ask the…

Aboitiz Power Group targets 2,000 MW more in 5 years

Vanessa Lucero 11/09/2015

    The Aboitiz Power Generation Group plans to increase its total power-generating capacity to more than 4,000 megawatts (MW). Manny Rubio, Aboitiz Power external vice president and chief operating officer, said they are targeting an additional…

Coal continues to dominate energy mix in Cebu – DOE

Vanessa Claire Lucero 10/15/2015

Energy demand growing 7% yearly; 2,000 MW needed in Visayas by 2020 More coal-fired power generation projects are still being undertaken in Cebu and in the Visayas than renewable energy projects, an official of the Department of…

SPC unit to build 300-MW coal plant

Marites Villamor Ilano 10/09/2015

THE board of directors of SPC Power Corp. yesterday ratified the creation of a wholly-owned subsidiary that will build a new coal plant in the City of Naga in southern Cebu. Based on SPC Power’s disclosure to…

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