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Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, May 21) Senator Imee Marcos is calling on the government to check if its plan to rehabilitate the decades-old Agus-Pulangi hydropower plants in Mindanao holds water.
The Agus-Pulangi Hydropower Complex, composed of seven mostly run-of-river hydroelectric power plants, is a burning issue, Marcos said during a Senate hearing on the proposed removal of the expiration period of the Joint Congressional Energy Commission.
The complex is currently owned by state-run Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management Corporation (PSALM) and operated by the National Power Corporation, but the government can soon choose to have it privatized as the ten-year ban under the Electric Power Industry Reform Act or EPIRA lapses.
Published May 15, 2021, 6:00 AM
I was invited to the Joint Congressional Energy Commission meeting held last April 27, 2021. I was very encouraged again by the invitation to participate in the JCEC. We submitted to the JCEC the position paper of the consumer advocacy group which I lead, Laban Konsyumer Inc., on the power supply outlook and renewable energy law. Our position paper can be accessed in our website at www.labankonsyumercom.
This is the big news on the removal of the Feed in Tariff or FIT.
Secretary of Energy Alfonso G. Cusi in the Virtual Economic Briefing of the Philippine Embassy in Washington D.C. held on April 15, 2021 Philippine time, relating to the Philippine Energy Plan of 2018-2040, announced that “we have stopped the Feed in Tariff or FIT which proved to be a big mistake as it forced electricity prices in the country upwards. We cannot have our consumers shoulder the financial burden of such subsidies any longer. This holds true most especially since RE
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Government generating power again? on April 29, 2021 at 9:08 pm
Two decades after the government let go of generating power, it’s considering a return in order to boost power reserves in the wake of thin supply, especially during the peak months.
In the hearing of the Joint Congressional Energy Commission on Tuesday, Energy Sec. Alfonso Cusi said that the plan is to have the government build and operate the plant as a reserve, then have it privatized along the way.
One example he cited was that of the Casecnan hydroelectric power plant in Pantabangan, Nueva Ecija, which the government could take over and operate as a reserve.
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