Veco, Profood top corporate taxpayers

Melissa Q. Cabahug 09/02/2015

Power distribution utility Visayan Electric Co., Inc. (Veco) and food processor Profood International Corp. were awarded as the top corporate business and real estate taxpayers in Mandaue City. Coming in second and third in business tax payments…

Fewer brownouts seen

Aileen Garcia-Yap, Victor Anthony V. Silva 06/05/2015

Residents in Cebu can look forward to fewer rotation brownouts at the end of the week, the regional Department of Energy (DOE) office said yesterday. This after Unit 1 of the Korean Electric Power Corp.-Salcon Power Corp.…

Brownouts today due to power shortage

06/01/2015

Several areas within the franchise area of the Visayan Electric Co. will experience brownouts due to a power shortage. The National Grid Corp. of the Philippines issued a “power shortage system” alarm to Veco and only gave…

Archival wants to look into power supply deals

Marian Z. Codilla, Marites Villamor Ilano 05/14/2015

Veco official says rates are historically high during summer Cebu City Councilor Nestor Archival wants to look into all applications for approval of power supply contracts filed before the Energy Regulatory Commission. Archival also requested the House…

DOLE ASKED TO STEP IN

Aileen Garcia-Yap, Michelle Joy L. Padayhag, Victor Anthony V. Silva 04/29/2015

Power plant workers  in Naga may  strike on Labor Day, May 1 Kepco-SPC  asks Labor Secretary to intervene to avoid outages Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz was formally asked  to intervene in the labor dispute in Naga  City…

No reduction of power rates, prices of goods

Melissa Q. Cabahug 01/21/2015

Energy rates and prices of basic commodities won’t go down in Cebu anytime soon despite the decline in global oil prices. Engr. Dennis Verallo, head of the utility economics department of the Visayan Electric Co. (Veco) said…

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…

Seniang damages lines; New Year power supply stable

Aileen Garcia-Yap 12/31/2014

Power distribution utilities confirmed some parts of Cebu are still without electricity, mostly as precautionary measure, while they survey extent in damage caused by tropical storm Seniang (international name: Jangmi). Cebu Electric Cooperative 1 (CEBECO 1) which…

Visayas grid short of 200 MW; brownouts this week

Aileen Garcia-Yap 05/20/2014

The Visayas Grid, which includes Cebu, is short by 200 megawatts starting today until the end of the week, due to power plant shutdowns for emergency preventive maintenance. Consumers can expect a spell of rotation brownouts lasting…

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…

Palace downplays emergency powers

01/13/2014

Malacañang yesterday downplayed the issue of emergency powers that would be given to President Aquino as it maintained that the administration would be seeking concrete measures to minimize the impact of the power rate increase. “The President…

Veco: Almost done restoring power

Aileen Garcia-Yap, Doris C. Bongcac 11/10/2013

WITH power gradually being restored in Metro Cebu after supertyphoon ‘Yolanda’, the Visayan Electric Co. (Veco) is more than half way done. As of 9 p.m., the private utility reported it had restored 217 megawatts (MW) to…

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