The government should shoulder the procurement cost of diesel-fed generator sets that the Department of Energy would use as a short-term solution to the Mindanao power crisis, senatorial candidate Eddie Villanueva said on Tuesday.
A repeat of the power crisis in Mindanao in the summer months this year and in 2014 is very likely, according to the government think-tank Philippine Institute for Development Studies.
Energy Secretary Jose Rene D. Almendras has warned of possible power supply shortages in Luzon by 2015 if the proposed 600-megawatt coal-fired power plant of Redondo Peninsula Energy Inc. (RP Energy) would be stalled.
Mindanao may face another power supply shortage of as much as 200 megawatts by the summer of next year, should no additional power facilities be put in place to shore up existing capacities in the electricity-starved island.
The state-run National Power Corp. is pursuing the rehabilitation of one of the power facilities at the highly crucial 700-megawatt Agus hydropower complex in Mindanao to prevent an imminent shutdown of that unit, which could only further aggravate the power supply crunch on the island.
The Department of Energy warned on Thursday that power consumers in Mindanao might face as long as four to eight hours in rotating brownouts this coming summer as the hotter temperatures could further constrain power supply in the island.
Energy Secretary Jose Rene D. Almendras has urged the state-run Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management Corp. (PSALM) to rush the sale of government-owned diesel-fired power barges as these might be necessary to avert a power supply shortfall in Mindanao this year.
MANILA, Philippines—Energy Secretary Jose Rene D. Almendras warned on Thursday of a possible 600-megawatt shortage in power reserves by 2014 and 2015, as protests lodged against the proposed coal-fired power projects threaten to delay their construction. Almendras sounded off the alarm at the sidelines of a briefing at the Philippine Stock Exchange on Thursday, as [...]
Aboitiz Power Corp. is prepared to help address the looming power shortfall in Mindanao by putting up a 300-megawatt (MW) clean coal-fired power plant and seven new hydropower facilities that can generate a combined 68 MW. “Government and independent think tank project that the power shortage by year 2014 will be 484 MW. That means [...]
