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==Combined power sources lead to minimal power cost hike in Mindanao== | |||
*Source: http://pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?menu=2&webregion=R11&article=1551333508082 | |||
*By: Frances Mae B. Gevera-Macapagat | |||
*''April 04, 2012'' | |||
DAVAO CITY- Power consumers in Mindanao may only have to pay additional 50 to 80 centavos per kWh to their electricity cost as electric cooperatives have started getting supply from power barges like Therma Marine. | |||
During the stakeholders’ meeting initiated by the Department of Energy (DOE) yesterday at the Grand Regal Hotel, this city, Energy Undersecretary Josefina Patricia Asirit explained that consumers will only have to pay a very minimal additional amount from the generation of power from expensive technologies like power barges and blending it with power generated from Mindanao plants. | |||
At present, there are two power barges in Mindanao operated by the Aboitiz-owned Therma Marine Inc. (TMI). | |||
The government instructed for the blending of the cheap power generated from Agus and the costly power generated from power barges and diesel plants as an immediate solution to the power shortage. | |||
“The cost of power is cheapest here in Mindanao. And even if rate adjustments will be made, consumers in Mindanao will just have to pay P3.50 as power cost, still way cheaper than the existing approved rate in Luzon and Visayas which runs from P5 to P6," | |||
The official clarified that consumers need not worry on certain claims that rate adjustments could go as high as P12 per kWh. “You will just be paying the cost of the blended mix.” | |||
Asirit cited the experience of some electric cooperatives which showed that the increase in the power cost runs at 50 centavos per kwh. | |||
“This is the easiest solution we could think of but it also comes with a manageable cost,” she said. | |||
The energy department is asking the consumers to bear with these adjustments as the stakeholders are doing both short- and long-term solutions to this power shortage. | |||
Energy officials expect these adjustments to be temporary as the government pursues to find other sources like the rehabilitation of the Agus-Pulangi hydropower complex and the building of more power plants in Mindanao. | |||
==DavSur town all set for environment festival== | ==DavSur town all set for environment festival== | ||
*Source: http://pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?menu=2&webregion=R11&article=1541333423998 | *Source: http://pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?menu=2&webregion=R11&article=1541333423998 | ||