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==Providing Electricity To Rural Filipinos== | |||
*Source: http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/354717/providing-electricity-to-rural-filipinos | |||
*March 19, 2012, 2:47am | |||
:by mb.com.ph | |||
MANILA, Philippines — The electrification of the remaining 36,000 sitios or small communities in the country, will be completed by 2016. The project is on track to attain the goal of providing electricity to 100 percent of rural barangays and 90 percent of rural households nationwide by 2017. The average household electrification level stands at between 72 percent and 75 percent. By the last quarter of 2011, the government provided electricity services to 1,420 sitios. | |||
The government continues to seek ways to improve electric service efficiency through private sector involvement. It doubled its budget this year to R5 billion, the highest so far for rural electrification, to attain more “inclusive” growth or economic development that starts from the bottom. The private sector, particularly the Independent Power Producers (IPPs), participate in the program through financial assistance or through the “Adopt-a-Barangay” scheme where IPPs fund the electrification of chosen barangays. | |||
To strengthen efforts by both government and private sector to develop innovative and sustained strategies consistent with reforms embodied in the Electric Power Industry Reform Act of 2001 (EPIRA), the Expanded Rural Electrification Program was established in April 26, 2003. The EPIRA opened opportunities for private sector participation and investment in rural electrification. There are now 119 electric cooperatives (ECs), 16 privately owned utilities, and three municipal systems that distribute power to the rural areas. | |||
ECs are government partners in bringing electricity to rural areas. The Oriental Mindoro Electric Cooperative, for instance, constructed the country’s first renewable energy project, a 2.1-megawatt mini hydro power plant, which was recently switched on by President Benigno S. Aquino III, lighting up 45 sitios and benefiting 978 families. The R21.022-million project was funded by the Development Bank of the Philippines as part of the 5.1-megawatt Linao Cawayan mini hydro power plant project. The project’s second phase, the three-megawatt Linao Cawayan mini hydro project also in Oriental Mindoro, is expected to be operational in the first quarter of 2013. | |||
The government still seeks the support and commitment of stakeholders in its initiative to provide energy that will help improve the lives of marginalized Filipinos, especially in still un-electrified rural barangays and households. | |||
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*Source: http://pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?menu=2&webregion=R04B&article=741331791762 | *Source: http://pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?menu=2&webregion=R04B&article=741331791762 | ||
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The event was also attended by city health officer Dr. Basilisa M. Llanto and city dentist Dr. Simonette Dalisay, who said that the program is considered one of the most important activities of the dental section of CHSD, since it highlighted oral hygiene and dental health as significant in promoting the general well-being of every individual, especially children. (LBR/LTC-PIA4B Calapan) | The event was also attended by city health officer Dr. Basilisa M. Llanto and city dentist Dr. Simonette Dalisay, who said that the program is considered one of the most important activities of the dental section of CHSD, since it highlighted oral hygiene and dental health as significant in promoting the general well-being of every individual, especially children. (LBR/LTC-PIA4B Calapan) | ||
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