State-run National Electrification Administration has tapped the Japan International Cooperation Agency (Jica) for a technical cooperation project, which is aimed at reducing systems losses and improving the operational efficiencies of electric cooperatives.
The state-run National Electrification Administration has tapped Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) for a technical cooperation project aimed at reducing systems losses and improving the operational efficiencies of electric cooperatives.
State-run National Electrification Administration (NEA) and its partner electric cooperatives spent about P3.5 billion last year to provide access to electricity to 6,163 villages across the country.
The government gave out some P2.2 billion in subsidies to state-owned and -controlled corporations in October, a big part of which were allocated to those engaged in projects related to utilities, labor, economic zones, tourism and trade promotion.
A civil society group on Thursday backed legislators who voted against a measure which sought to grant the National Electrification Administration authority to regulate electric cooperatives.
State-run National Electrification Administration has called for the creation of sitio electrification units within electric cooperatives to help manage the government’s planned rollout of some P33 billion worth of rural electrification projects over the next five years.
State-run National Electrification Administration (NEA) has extended a total of P1.9 billion worth of loans to 87 electric cooperatives last year and in the first two months of 2012, to help finance various electrification projects.
The Department of Energy and the National Electrification Administration have earmarked an initial P590 million this year to provide electricity to another 833 remote sitios (villages) in the country.
