PHNO-HL: MINDANAO POWER SUPPLY CONTINUES TO DIP

MINDANAO POWER SUPPLY CONTINUES TO
DIP

DAVAO CITY, MAY 8, 2012 (PHILSTAR) By
Edith Regalado – The power supply in the south continues to plunge as power
outages in a large part of the island last from eight to 12 hours.
The National Grid Corp. of the Philippines (NGCP) yesterday placed the
deficit for Mindanao at 277 megawatts (MW), as system capacity was only 986MW
while demand peaked at 1263MW.
A load curtailment of about 350MW is now being implemented in Mindanao due to
the acute shortage in power.
The Agus-Pulangi power plant is also undergoing a month-long rehabilitation,
which contributes to the further decrease in the power supply in Mindanao.
Officials are fast-tracking the creation of the Mindanao Power Monitoring
Committee (MPMC) and the One-Stop Shop Processing Center (OSSPC) in an effort to
solve the prevailing power crisis in Mindanao.
The creation of the MPMC and the OSSPC was upon instruction of President
Aquino to address the power situation in the south.
Mindanao Development Authority (MinDA) chair Lualhati Antonino said the
President also pushed for the immediate drafting of the executive order that
would support the creation of both the MPMC and the OSSPC.

[PHOTO - Agus-Pulangi power plant]
Antonino said the MinDA Board of Directors held a special meeting to tackle
the creation of the two action points, which would be responsible for providing
outright information regarding the energy and power situation including, but not
limited to, supply and price levels.
"We are grateful to the President for the time and effort he exerted to reach
out to the people of Mindanao and for providing an opportunity for various
sectors to be heard on the urgent issue of power," Antonino said.
MPMC will be chaired by MinDA and composed of representatives from Department
of Energy, Mindanao Electric Power Alliance, Philippine Chamber of Commerce Inc.
Mindanao, electric cooperatives, local government units, and civil society
organizations.
Establishment of the OSSPC, similar to the one-stop shops of DTI, will help
fast-track processing of applications for new generation capacities in Mindanao.

The main goal is to be able to complete setup of small hydro plants within 10
months to one year.
Awarding of service contracts for hydro project applications currently takes
years to be processed.
"We should put a timeframe to the application process; maximum should be six
months," said MinDA board member Vicente Lao, president of the Mindanao Energy
Power Alliance.
The MinDA board also agreed to conduct a preliminary assessment of the
existing process to identify bottlenecks and areas for improvement in the
setting up of the OSSPC.
Recommendations derived from the assessment will be incorporated into the
mandate to be issued by Malacañang.



Chief News Editor: Sol
Jose Vanzi

© Copyright, 2012 by PHILIPPINE HEADLINE
NEWS ONLINE
All rights reserved





PHILIPPINE HEADLINE NEWS
ONLINE [PHNO] WEBSITE

[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]



------------------------------------

-------------------------------------------------------------
Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/phnotweet

This is the PHILIPPINE HEADLINE NEWS ONLINE (PHNO) Mailing List.

To stop receiving our news items, please send a blank e-mail addressed to: phno-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com

Please visit our homepage at: http://www.newsflash.org/

(c) Copyright 2009. All rights reserved.
-------------------------------------------------------------Yahoo! Groups Links

<*> To visit your group on the web, go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/phno/

<*> Your email settings:
Individual Email | Traditional

<*> To change settings online go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/phno/join
(Yahoo! ID required)

<*> To change settings via email:
phno-digest@yahoogroups.com
phno-fullfeatured@yahoogroups.com

<*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
phno-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com

<*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to:
http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/