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==Region 10 supplies 63.90% of Mindanao power grid’s dependable capacity== | |||
*Source: http://pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?menu=2&webregion=R10&article=1451334501336 | |||
*Monday 16th of April 2012 | |||
:by Rutchie C. Aguhob | |||
OZAMIZ CITY, Misamis Occidental, April 16 (PIA) -- The electric power plants of Northern Mindanao have an installed capacity of 1.063.70 megawatts (MW) with a dependable capacity of 791.87 MW last year. | |||
This actually represent 57.95 percent of the Mindanao Power Grid’s installed capacity of 1,835.48 MW and 63.90 percent of its dependable capacity of 1,239.25MW, Engr. Leon Dacanay, Jr., Regional Director of the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA), region 10, said. | |||
Dacanay said the installed capacity means the number of MW that a power plant can produce while dependable capacity is the number of MW produced during peak hours. | |||
Data gathered by NEDA from the National Power Corporation (NPC) show that Region 10’s dependable capacity in 2010 was 799.20MW but was reduced by 7.33MW or 0.92%, in 2011, due to El Niňo that caused the decrease of the water levels in Lake Lanao and Pulangi River affecting the water supply that ran the turbines of the hydro-electric plants (HEP). | |||
Meanwhile, Dacanay said the total dependable power source of the region in 2011 had a power generation mix of HEP, coal-fire, and solar plant, as no diesel power plant was operational in the entire year. | |||
These sources posted the corresponding shares in the dependable capacity of the region: 580.87 MW or 73.35 percent from the HEPs, 210 MW or 26.52 percent from the coal-fired plant, and 1.0 MW or 0.13 percent from the solar plant. | |||
The location of these power plants, their installed and dependable capacity were as follows: Agus 4 HEP in Nangka, Balo-I town, Lanao del Norte, with installed capacity of 158.10 MW and dependable capacity of 152MW; Agus 5 HEP in Ditucalan, Iligan City with installed capacity of 55 MW and dependable capacity of 53.543MW and Agus 6 HEP in Maria Cristina, Iligan City with installed capacity of 200MW and dependable capacity of 136 MW; Agus 7 HEP in Fuentes, Iligan City with installed capacity of 54 MW and dependable capacity of 26 MW and Pulangi 4 HEP in Kiuntod, Camp 1, Maramag town, Bukidnon with installed capacity of 255 MW and dependable capacity of 213.33 MW; Mindanao Coal in Barangay Balacanas, Villanueva, Misamis Oriental, with installed capacity of 232MW and dependable capacity of 210 MW and the photo-voltaic solar plant in Indahag, Cagayan de Oro owned by the Cagayan de Oro Power and Light Co., (CEPALCO) with an installed capacity of 1.0 MW and the corresponding dependable capacity of also 1.0 MW. (PIA-10 Mis. Occ.) | |||
==Paid-up capital of cooperatives in region 10, up 0.79%== | ==Paid-up capital of cooperatives in region 10, up 0.79%== | ||
*Source: http://www.pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?article=1451334388174 | *Source: http://www.pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?article=1451334388174 | ||
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As to the number of coops, the following increases were also noted: Bukidnon, from 298 to 310 or 4.03 percent, Lanao del Norte, from 262 to 272 or 3.82 percent and Misamis Occidental, from 160 to 165 or 3.13 percent. | As to the number of coops, the following increases were also noted: Bukidnon, from 298 to 310 or 4.03 percent, Lanao del Norte, from 262 to 272 or 3.82 percent and Misamis Occidental, from 160 to 165 or 3.13 percent. | ||
However, the accumulated paid-up capital, the membership and the number of coops in Camiguin, remained the same at P12.515 million, 53 coops and 8,143 members, Ravanera added. (EOR/RCA-PIA10 Mis. Occ.) | However, the accumulated paid-up capital, the membership and the number of coops in Camiguin, remained the same at P12.515 million, 53 coops and 8,143 members, Ravanera added. (EOR/RCA-PIA10 Mis. Occ.) | ||
==Electric cooperative hopes government intervention will stop power interruptions== | ==Electric cooperative hopes government intervention will stop power interruptions== | ||