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A yellow alert over the Visayas grid yesterday once again shows how weak and unstable the Philippine power system is. The National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) issues the alert when power reserves fall below the required contingency level.
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
Failed promises of the Electric Power Industry Reform Act of 2001.
Sidebar: Power firms, creditors assured of billions, while consumers burdened with Napocor debt
Media Release February 19, 2010 Instead of mapping out a long-term energy plan and setting up new power plants to meet growing needs, government been pre-occupied with selling off its power assets as part of the Electric Power Industry Reform Act (EPIRA). It is now...
BY Bulatlat.com August 12, 2008 - 5:18 p.m. “Power, perpetuation in power, not peace in Mindanao is Mrs. Arroyo’s true agenda in the renewed bid to change the charter.” This is how the party list representatives of Bayan Muna, Anakpawis and Gabriela deemed the...
Using government data, Ramon Ramirez, electrical engineer and spokesperson of People Opposed to Warrantless Electricity Rates, concluded that the poor pays for 90 percent of the VAT on oil and power. BY RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat Volume VIII, Number 26, August 3-9,...
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