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Tight electricity supply and high system demand continued to hound the Visayas power grid, prompting another yellow alert that lasted for five hours yesterday.

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Power grids in the Visayas and Mindanao were placed under yellow alert yesterday due to unplanned shutdowns of several power plants, which strained supply amid higher demand.

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The Department of Energy (DOE) has outlined major energy-related strategic infrastructure projects that would address the poor power conditions in Mindanao.

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Synergy Grid & Development Phils. Inc., which controls the country’s transmission highway, will comply with the Philippine Stock Exchange’s minimum public ownership requirement of at least 10 percent, according to a company official.

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The National Grid Corp. of the Philippines (NGCP) will put up the needed transmission facilities once the pending renewable energy (RE) projects start to kick in.

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There is no other way of putting the implications of this problem in a more delicate manner because the stakes are too high for this administration’s PPP initiatives.

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It is good to know that the new energy secretary is not a pushover.

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Energy Secretary Jose Rene Almendras berated yesterday the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) for lack of transparency in reporting the true situation of the country’s power transmission system.

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It was the first typhoon for the new administration. Luckily it was a fairly mild one compared with the ones we had last year.

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I was about to sleep Tuesday evening when the neighborhood experienced power failure.

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Power grids in the Visayas and Mindanao were placed under yellow alert yesterday due to unplanned shutdowns of several power plants, which strained supply amid higher demand.

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The Department of Energy (DOE) has outlined major energy-related strategic infrastructure projects that would address the poor power conditions in Mindanao.

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Synergy Grid & Development Phils. Inc., which controls the country’s transmission highway, will comply with the Philippine Stock Exchange’s minimum public ownership requirement of at least 10 percent, according to a company official.

[DatePublished] => 2012-09-10 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804021 [AuthorName] => Zinnia B. Dela Peña [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 721119 [Title] => National Grid says it is ready for renewable energy projects [Summary] =>

The National Grid Corp. of the Philippines (NGCP) will put up the needed transmission facilities once the pending renewable energy (RE) projects start to kick in.

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There is no other way of putting the implications of this problem in a more delicate manner because the stakes are too high for this administration’s PPP initiatives.

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It is good to know that the new energy secretary is not a pushover.

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Energy Secretary Jose Rene Almendras berated yesterday the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) for lack of transparency in reporting the true situation of the country’s power transmission system.

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It was the first typhoon for the new administration. Luckily it was a fairly mild one compared with the ones we had last year.

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I was about to sleep Tuesday evening when the neighborhood experienced power failure.

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