GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/4 October) — A two-hour daily rotating brownout will again hit this city and the neighboring areas for about a month because of the scheduled maintenance shutdown of Steag State Power Inc.’s 210-megawatt (MW) coal plant in
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews / 14 April) – Members of the city council here are bent on going to court if the National Power Corporation (Napocor) and other subsidiary agencies of the Philippine government refuse to dispatch 25 percent of the
ZAMBOANGA CITY (MindaNews/21 March) – A business group has filed with the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) a motion to intervene in the hearing relative to the application of the Zamboanga City Electric Cooper ative (Zamcelco) to purchase additional power from
MEDINA, Misamis Oriental (MindaNews/17 May) — Steag State Power Inc. has so far not shown interest in the impending sale next month of the Agus and Pulangi hydropower complexes under the Electric Power Industry Reform Act. In an interview, Ma.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/10 May) – After several misses, the Alcantara-led 0-million coal-fired power project would be constructed starting in the third quarter of the year. Tomas I. Alcantara, chairman and president of Alsons Consolidated Resources, Inc. (ACR), has issued
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/15 April) – Officials of the First Bukidnon Electric Cooperative (Fibeco) underscored the need to construct more hydro electric power plants to pull down power rates in Mindanao. “As more coal and diesel power plants go
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/2 March) – The Sangguniang Panlungsod will soon start review of the proposal by Aboitiz Power Corp. to build a P25-billion coal-fired power plant in this city. The proposed plant, to be built in Barangay Binugao of the
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/1 March) – The Alcantara-led Conal Holdings Corp. is on the end stages of the detailed design and engineering studies for its $450-million coal-fired power plant in nearby Maasim, Sarangani province, a senior company executive said. But
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/9 Feb) – Aboitiz Power Corporation is eyeing a 51-hectare property spanning Binugao and Inayawan barangays in the boundary areas of Santa Cruz town in Davao del Sur and Davao City as a possible site of the proposed
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/05 February) — The Aboitiz-owned Hydro-Electric Development Corporation (Hedcor) is eyeing five more run-of-river hydropower plants in at least three provinces in Mindanao, most of them within ancestral domain areas of indigenous peoples. Rene Ronquillo, Hedcor president, said
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/28 January) – Basic infrastructures, including stable power supply, topped the concerns raised by participants from the business sector during the regional consultation on the country’s development plan for the next six years, a National Economic and Development
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/14 Jan) – At present they want the National Power Corporation and the Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management Corporation to prioritize Bukidnon’s power demand requirement in using electricity generated from the Pulangi IV hydroelectric power plant. But
MALAYBALAY CITY (10 January/MindaNews) — “Give us priority,” provincial officials and the electric power cooperatives asked the National Power Corporation and the Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management Corporation (PSALM) during the Buidnon Power Summit, as they asserted that their
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/08 January) – For the Cotabato Electric Cooperative, giving a five-percent discount to their consumers who are senior citizens as required by law, is a form of “social justice”. But others have called it “hypocrisy” on the part
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/04 January) – A posh condominium project which will be partly powered by solar energy and “green architecture” in uptown Cagayan de Oro City has attracted Italian investors. Designed by Italian architect Romolo Nati, the 10-storey
VALENCIA CITY (MindaNews/ 28 November) - Have investors backed out of the proposed bioethanol plant project in Kibawe town in southern Bukdinon? The plant was supposed to have been a showcase of Senator Juan Miguel Zubiri’s advocacy for biodiesel, a
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/19 Nov) — Rainbow Warrior, the vintage vessel of environmental activist Greenpeace, docked at the Makar Wharf here Friday morning as part of the “Turn the Tide Southeast Asia” campaign. The 52-year-old ship, which is due for
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/14 November) — The Cagayan de Oro Electric Power and Light Company (Cepalco) will cut power rates by an average of five centavos per kilowatt hour starting July 2011, Engr. Richard S. Ratunil, Cepalco’s Economic Compliance
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/12 November)—Coal is neither cheap nor clean, environment activists today said in a gathering here of groups opposed to the plan of the Aboitiz Power Corp. to put up a 200-megawatt coal-fired power plant in the city. If
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/09 November) – Mindanao’s first “green building” is being constructed in an uptown residential complex here. The 10-storey Primavera Condominiums inside the Pueblo de Oro complex will be partly powered by solar energy. Rodolfo Menes, general
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/08 November)—Mindanao will be short of 1,000 megawatts more, on top of the projected 484-megawatt shortfall in 2014, if the power need of the mining industry is also considered, Vicente Lao, chair of the Mindanao Business Council (MBC)
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/26 October) – In Barangay Indahag of this port city, one can see row upon row of solar panels tilted towards the skies, drawing electricity from an inexhaustible source of energy: the sun. The first solar
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/22 October) — The government has remained non-committal on whether to push through with the privatization of Mindanao’s major hydropower complexes as provided for in the Electric Power Industry Reform Act of 2001 (Republic Act 9136), Mindanao Development
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/22 October) – Power consumers here and in nearby South Cotabato and Sarangani provinces are in for another relief in their power bills after local power utility South Cotabato Electric Cooperative II (Socoteco II) further reduced its
MANILA (MindaNews/20 October) — Climate Change Commissioner Lucille Sering is mad over proposals to set up a coal-fired power plant in her hometown in Surigao City, while actress-representative Lani Mercado-Revilla is sad about the shift to non-renewable energy in Mindanao.
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/18 October) — Higher power rates will likely continue to hound consumers with petroleum-based fuels getting more share of Mindanao’s power grid even as the Department of Energy has issued a directive on using all available
KIDAPAWAN City (MindaNews/14 Oct) — Starting next year, the city government of Kidapawan will lose at least 63 percent in its real property taxes due to the exemption granted to the Energy Development Corporation (EDC), one of the country’s biggest
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/12 October) — Mayor Sara Duterte hinted she might change her mind with regard to the proposal of a power firm to build a coal-fired power plant to avert possible power outages and shortfall. Duterte said she is
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/10 October) — The business sector has warned of higher power rates in Mindanao as it chided the Department of Energy for allegedly misleading consumers on the supply situation that has triggered anew rotational brownouts. Manuel F.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/10 October) — Mayor Rodolfo Gantuangco is not keen on endorsing another drilling of a geothermal well at the geothermal field of the Energy Development Corporation (EDC) in Barangay Ilomavis, this city. Gantuangco said the city suffered some
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/08 October) – The Energy Regulatory Commission came out with a ruling on Tuesday denying the Ancillary Service Purchase Agreement (Aspa) petition of the Therma Marine Inc. and the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines. Abante
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/27 September) – The business community here urged the national government to intervene in the operations of the National Power Corporation’s (NPC) hydroelectric plants in the wake of daily rotational brownouts that hit this city and various
MALAYBALAY, Bukidnon (MindaNews/18 September 2010) — Proponents and critics of the proposed 300 mw Pulangi V hydroelectric power plant in southern Bukidnon and North Cotabato are on a head-on confrontation as the proponents of the project is turning the table
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/16 Sept) — The biggest alliance of environmentalists in the country has chided the Mindanao Business Conference (MinBizCon), which gathers some 500 business leaders of the island starting Friday, for its expressed plan to focus on
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/11 September) – The National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) will implement on Monday a nine-hour power curtailment in five provinces in Mindanao. In a letter sent to electric cooperatives and power firms in Mindanao, Maximo Adiong
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/2 Sept) — Power utility South Cotabato Electric Cooperative (Socoteco)-II has launched the distribution of some 132,000 compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) here and in nine other towns in Sarangani and South Cotabato provinces as part of a
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/29 August) — Some P33. 4 million from royalty tax for hosting the geothermal power plant of the Energy Development Corporation (EDC) within the Mount Apo National Park is available for use by the provincial government of North
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/12 Aug) – Some 83,000 energy-saving compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) will be distributed by the Cotabato Electric Cooperative (Cotelco) to its electricity consumers within three months’ time starting this week in most parts of North Cotabato. The program,
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/5 Aug) – The Asian Development Bank (ADB) announced today that it is willing to support energy projects for Mindanao to help avert power shortages in the future. But Claudia Buentjen, ADB Principal Country Specialist, told reporters that
HAGONOY, Davao del Sur (MindaNews/01 August) – Mindanao Development Authority (MinDA) chair Sec. Jesus Dureza on Saturday said the development of power and mining industries should be among the top long-term priorities in the efforts to boost the region’s economy.
