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The Painful Saga of Minda(rk)nao
Without let-up, Mindanao continues to suffer rotating brown-outs, along with the inconvenience and business losses these power outages bring. It really is a pity since this problem is not unknown to the present government of P-Noy when he took the … Continue reading
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Tagged mindanao, mindanao power crisis, mindaoapower, NPC, power shortage
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Mindanao: (Com)Promised Land!
There is an interesting piece of news in a national daily quoting DOE Secretary Almendras’ perceived solution to the critical power situation in Mindanao. According to Almendras, the rotating brownouts lasting one or two hours daily were primarily due to … Continue reading
If there is enough capacity, why the brown-outs?
Today, October 15, 2010, the Mindanao Grid has a dependable capacity of 1, 178.5 Mw. It also has an additional capacity of 166 Mw from the embedded generating untis. These embedded generating units are capacities of distribution utilities and/or cooperatives … Continue reading
Posted in energy, mindanao, NPC and PSALM
Tagged brown outs, DOE, energy, Iligan City, Ma. Cristina Falls, mindanao, mindanao power crisis, NAPOCOR, NGCP, power plants, privatization
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Ma. Cristina Falls: A Choice Between Nature and Energy Security
http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=617969&publicationSubCategoryId=66. This is the link of the Philippine Star article yesterday. The title of the article is: Almendras to compel Mindanao power utilities to forge tieups with gencos. These are some of this blog’s concerns: •If these electric coops and … Continue reading
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Tagged brown outs, climate change, energy, Iligan City, Ma. Cristina Falls, mindanao, NAPOCOR, privatization, psalm
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Dissecting the OMA
The Operations and Maintenance Agreement or the OMA is an agreement entered into by the National Power Corporation (NPC) and PSALM. It is a devise by which PSALM is able to look into the operations of the undisposed generating assets. … Continue reading
Posted in energy, mindanao, NPC and PSALM
Tagged brown outs, DOE, energy, epira, ERC, Iligan City, Ma. Cristina Falls, mindanao, NAPOCOR, OMA, privatization, psalm, rotatiting brown outs
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And the spilling goes on . . .
I visited Iligan City yesterday and watched in awe some of the colorful spectacles in celebration of the Dyandi Festival or the Celebration of the Feast of St. Michael The Archangel. The Kasadya Festival was truly an amazing show of … Continue reading
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Tagged Dyandi Festival, energy, epira, Iligan City, Kasadya Festival, Ma. Cristina Falls, mindanao, mindanao power crisis, rotatiting brown outs
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Coal is Not the Answer!
The story about the long term adverse effect of using coal in our industries, including its extensive use in power generation, is not entirely new to us. While it may be true that advances in technology may have reduced the … Continue reading
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Tagged climate change, coal, energy, mindanao, mindanao power crisis
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The DOE: Mindanao Power Situation is Critical
No less than the Secretary of the Department of Energy admitted today that the power situation in Mindanao is critical. Recent news published in the online version of the Inquirer (follow this link http://business.inquirer.net/money/topstories/view/20100922-293778/Mindanao-power-supply-critical-govt-acts-to-avert-crisis) will prove correct the many apprehensions … Continue reading
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Tagged energy, epira, mindanao, mindanao power crisis, psalm, rotatiting brown outs
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