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Japanese firms Electric Power Development Co. Ltd. (J-Power) and Sumitomo Corp., the operators of the Caliraya-Botocan-Kalayaan (CBK) Power Corp., have signified keen interest to expand the capacity of the hydropower facility by 360 megawatts (MW), the country’s top energy official said.


In an interview with reporters yesterday, Energy Secretary Raphael P.M. Lotilla said the proposed expansion is now under study.
[DatePublished] => 2007-01-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096364 [AuthorName] => Donnabelle L. Gatdula [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 263363 [Title] => IMPSA denies selling stake in CBK Power [Summary] => Argentina’s power giant Industrias Metallurgicas Pescarmona S.A. (IMPSA) has no plans of divesting its stake in CBK Power Co. Ltd., the operator of a $470-million hydropower plant in Laguna, a top CBK Power official said.

"We are pleased with our operations here, it is going smoothly. The project is complete and operational. We were able to renegotiate our contract with the government and got a concession agreement," CBK Power president and chief executive officer Gerald Katz said.
[DatePublished] => 2004-09-03 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096364 [AuthorName] => Donnabelle L. Gatdula [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 241602 [Title] => CBK Power open to extension of rehab program for Laguna facility [Summary] => Energy giant CBK Power Co. Ltd. has expressed willingness to extend the rehabilitation program for its anchor hydropower facility in Laguna despite the political uncertainties in the country, a top company executive said.

CBK Power, a joint venture between Industrias Metallurgicas Percarmona S.A. (IMPSA) of Argentina and Edison Mission Energy of California, is the operator of the $470-million build-rehabilitate-operate-transfer (BROT) hydropower plant along Caliraya-Botocan-Kalayaan in Laguna.
[DatePublished] => 2004-03-07 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096364 [AuthorName] => Donnabelle L. Gatdula [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 241005 [Title] => CBK eyes more hydropower plants, vows to invest in RP [Summary] => CBK Power Co. is looking at the possibility of acquiring some of the National Power Corp.’s hydropower plants in the auction to be conducted by the Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management Corp. (PSALM).

Under the law, PSALM will be in charge of the privatization of Napocor’s assets and liabilities.
[DatePublished] => 2004-03-02 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096364 [AuthorName] => Donnabelle L. Gatdula [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 217851 [Title] => CBK Power to complete $470-M rehab of Laguna hydropower plant by yearend [Summary] => CBK Power Co. Ltd., a joint venture between IMPSA of Argentina and Edison Mission Energy of California, expects to complete the rehabilitation of its Kalayaan hydropower plant by the end of the year.

"Later this year, we will be able to finish the 350-megawatt (MW) Kalayaan facility," CBK Power president and chief executive officer Gerard Katz said.

Katz said they have already spent some $400 million of the total $470 million project cost for the rehabilitation of the 750-MW CBK (Caliraya-Botocan-Kalayaan) hydropower facility in Laguna.
[DatePublished] => 2003-08-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096364 [AuthorName] => Donnabelle L. Gatdula [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 208474 [Title] => Government to save P5B from new CBK deal [Summary] => The National Government expects to realize total savings of $96 million (P5 billion) from its renegotiated contract with CBK Power Company Ltd.

Energy Secretary Vincent S. Perez announced over the weekend that the Department of Energy (DOE) and the Power Sector Assets and Liabilities and Management Corp. (PSALM) have reached a mutually acceptable agreement with CBK Power in resolving all outstanding issues on the power contract entered into by the National Power Corp. (Napocor).
[DatePublished] => 2003-06-02 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096364 [AuthorName] => Donnabelle L. Gatdula [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 205920 [Title] => Napocor, CBK Power may go into arbitration to settle dispute [Summary] => The National Power Corp. (Napocor) and the Caliraya-Botocan-Kalayaan (CBK) Power Corp. are likely to enter into an arbitration to settle the capital recovery fee (CRF) which reportedly has not been paid by the state-run power firm since the start of 2003.

"It is one of the options we are looking at. But we are still negotiating the contract with CBK. Pursuant to their contract, if both parties have some issues that can not be resolved, they can always go into arbitration," a Napocor official, who requested anonymity, said.
[DatePublished] => 2003-05-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096364 [AuthorName] => Donnabelle L. Gatdula [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 191550 [Title] => Who was responsible for the Impsa deal? [Summary] => Ramos administration (July 1992 — June 1998): 

• Invited the Argentine firm Industrias Metalurgicas Pescarmona Sociedad Anonima (IMPSA) to invest in the Philippines and laid the groundwork for Impsa’s participation in the power sector.
[DatePublished] => 2003-01-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1653036 [AuthorName] => Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 191441 [Title] => Impsa: Erap OK’d deal; Erap Cabinet points to Nani [Summary] => Cabinet officials of deposed President Joseph Estrada testified before the Senate yesterday that they did not approve the controversial $470-million build-rehabilitate-operate-transfer (BROT) deal between the government and Argentine firm Industrias Metalurgicas Pescarmonas Sociedad Anonima (Impsa).

Instead, they insisted that former justice secretary Hernando Perez was the one responsible for the "approval" of the BROT deal for the 750-megawatt Caliraya-Botocan-Kalayaan (CBK) power plant complex in Laguna.
[DatePublished] => 2003-01-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096364 [AuthorName] => Donnabelle L. Gatdula [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 189057 [Title] => PGMA’s running in 2004 blamed for her problems [Summary] => TEMPTING NEW TERM: The problems of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo started the day she succumbed to the temptation of running for her own six-year term in the 2004 presidential election.

Since then, she has been a captive of that obsession of making it to the presidency with a direct mandate from the people. (She was elected only as vice president in 1998, although becoming president if the top post becomes vacant is part of her job description as No. 2 official of the land.)
[DatePublished] => 2002-12-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136322 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804858 [AuthorName] => Federico D. Pascual Jr. [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) ) )
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                    [Title] => CBK to expand hydropower capacity by 360MW
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Japanese firms Electric Power Development Co. Ltd. (J-Power) and Sumitomo Corp., the operators of the Caliraya-Botocan-Kalayaan (CBK) Power Corp., have signified keen interest to expand the capacity of the hydropower facility by 360 megawatts (MW), the country’s top energy official said.


In an interview with reporters yesterday, Energy Secretary Raphael P.M. Lotilla said the proposed expansion is now under study.
[DatePublished] => 2007-01-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096364 [AuthorName] => Donnabelle L. Gatdula [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 263363 [Title] => IMPSA denies selling stake in CBK Power [Summary] => Argentina’s power giant Industrias Metallurgicas Pescarmona S.A. (IMPSA) has no plans of divesting its stake in CBK Power Co. Ltd., the operator of a $470-million hydropower plant in Laguna, a top CBK Power official said.

"We are pleased with our operations here, it is going smoothly. The project is complete and operational. We were able to renegotiate our contract with the government and got a concession agreement," CBK Power president and chief executive officer Gerald Katz said.
[DatePublished] => 2004-09-03 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096364 [AuthorName] => Donnabelle L. Gatdula [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 241602 [Title] => CBK Power open to extension of rehab program for Laguna facility [Summary] => Energy giant CBK Power Co. Ltd. has expressed willingness to extend the rehabilitation program for its anchor hydropower facility in Laguna despite the political uncertainties in the country, a top company executive said.

CBK Power, a joint venture between Industrias Metallurgicas Percarmona S.A. (IMPSA) of Argentina and Edison Mission Energy of California, is the operator of the $470-million build-rehabilitate-operate-transfer (BROT) hydropower plant along Caliraya-Botocan-Kalayaan in Laguna.
[DatePublished] => 2004-03-07 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096364 [AuthorName] => Donnabelle L. Gatdula [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 241005 [Title] => CBK eyes more hydropower plants, vows to invest in RP [Summary] => CBK Power Co. is looking at the possibility of acquiring some of the National Power Corp.’s hydropower plants in the auction to be conducted by the Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management Corp. (PSALM).

Under the law, PSALM will be in charge of the privatization of Napocor’s assets and liabilities.
[DatePublished] => 2004-03-02 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096364 [AuthorName] => Donnabelle L. Gatdula [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 217851 [Title] => CBK Power to complete $470-M rehab of Laguna hydropower plant by yearend [Summary] => CBK Power Co. Ltd., a joint venture between IMPSA of Argentina and Edison Mission Energy of California, expects to complete the rehabilitation of its Kalayaan hydropower plant by the end of the year.

"Later this year, we will be able to finish the 350-megawatt (MW) Kalayaan facility," CBK Power president and chief executive officer Gerard Katz said.

Katz said they have already spent some $400 million of the total $470 million project cost for the rehabilitation of the 750-MW CBK (Caliraya-Botocan-Kalayaan) hydropower facility in Laguna.
[DatePublished] => 2003-08-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096364 [AuthorName] => Donnabelle L. Gatdula [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 208474 [Title] => Government to save P5B from new CBK deal [Summary] => The National Government expects to realize total savings of $96 million (P5 billion) from its renegotiated contract with CBK Power Company Ltd.

Energy Secretary Vincent S. Perez announced over the weekend that the Department of Energy (DOE) and the Power Sector Assets and Liabilities and Management Corp. (PSALM) have reached a mutually acceptable agreement with CBK Power in resolving all outstanding issues on the power contract entered into by the National Power Corp. (Napocor).
[DatePublished] => 2003-06-02 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096364 [AuthorName] => Donnabelle L. Gatdula [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 205920 [Title] => Napocor, CBK Power may go into arbitration to settle dispute [Summary] => The National Power Corp. (Napocor) and the Caliraya-Botocan-Kalayaan (CBK) Power Corp. are likely to enter into an arbitration to settle the capital recovery fee (CRF) which reportedly has not been paid by the state-run power firm since the start of 2003.

"It is one of the options we are looking at. But we are still negotiating the contract with CBK. Pursuant to their contract, if both parties have some issues that can not be resolved, they can always go into arbitration," a Napocor official, who requested anonymity, said.
[DatePublished] => 2003-05-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096364 [AuthorName] => Donnabelle L. Gatdula [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 191550 [Title] => Who was responsible for the Impsa deal? [Summary] => Ramos administration (July 1992 — June 1998): 

• Invited the Argentine firm Industrias Metalurgicas Pescarmona Sociedad Anonima (IMPSA) to invest in the Philippines and laid the groundwork for Impsa’s participation in the power sector.
[DatePublished] => 2003-01-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1653036 [AuthorName] => Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 191441 [Title] => Impsa: Erap OK’d deal; Erap Cabinet points to Nani [Summary] => Cabinet officials of deposed President Joseph Estrada testified before the Senate yesterday that they did not approve the controversial $470-million build-rehabilitate-operate-transfer (BROT) deal between the government and Argentine firm Industrias Metalurgicas Pescarmonas Sociedad Anonima (Impsa).

Instead, they insisted that former justice secretary Hernando Perez was the one responsible for the "approval" of the BROT deal for the 750-megawatt Caliraya-Botocan-Kalayaan (CBK) power plant complex in Laguna.
[DatePublished] => 2003-01-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096364 [AuthorName] => Donnabelle L. Gatdula [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 189057 [Title] => PGMA’s running in 2004 blamed for her problems [Summary] => TEMPTING NEW TERM: The problems of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo started the day she succumbed to the temptation of running for her own six-year term in the 2004 presidential election.

Since then, she has been a captive of that obsession of making it to the presidency with a direct mandate from the people. (She was elected only as vice president in 1998, although becoming president if the top post becomes vacant is part of her job description as No. 2 official of the land.)
[DatePublished] => 2002-12-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136322 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804858 [AuthorName] => Federico D. Pascual Jr. [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) ) )
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