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19/03/2024

Exciting news! SB19's Pablo takes on a new role as the Earth Hour 2024 Music Ambassador. Join us on March 23rd in Manila City as we celebrate the 16th anniversary of this global movement for the environment. Let's light up the world with passion and resilience! 🌍✨

SB19 leader Pablo is WWF-Philippines' new Earth Hour Music Ambassador, who will be the main guest of the annual switch-off event in Manila City on March 23,

06/03/2024

National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) explains its role and responsibilities in the Philippine energy sector.

06/03/2024

The House agri committee will investigate on Thursday the disadvantageous sale of 75,000 sacks of deteriorating or aging rice by the NFA.

06/03/2024

One artist that Filipino pop singer Sarah Geronimo hopes to have a chance working with is Jungkook from the Korean boy band BTS.

06/03/2024

05/03/2024

DOE releases statement clarifying the March 1 blackout incident in Panay due to PEDC unplanned shutdown.

MEDIA STATEMENT
04 March 2024

Improvement of the power situation in Panay, a month away - DOE

Relief from the Panay power situation is less than a month away. The Panay grid will be strengthened upon the completion of the Cebu-Negros-Panay (CNP) transmission upgrade by the end of March. The regular maintenance shutdown of the Palm Concepcion Power Corporation (PCPC) will also be finished by the end of March. The Department of Energy (DOE) emphasizes the need for generators, distribution utilities, and the system operator to continue cooperating to maintain the grid's stability and quickly recover from any power interruption.

While waiting for the completion of the transmission upgrade and maintenance of PCPC, the general public is encouraged to conserve energy, especially for the month of March.

The Panay Island is powered by four (4) large coal power plants with a total capacity of 451 megawatts (MW) and nine (9) smaller diesel/bunker and renewables with a total capacity of 220.3 MW. The large coal power plants consist of three (3) units of Panay Energy Development Corporation (PEDC) and one (1) unit of Palm Concepcion Power Corporation (PCPC). Aside from generators on the island, 180 MW can be drawn from Negros to Panay through a submarine cable. The total demand for Panay Island is below 400 MW.

Currently, one of the large coal power plants, PCPC, is under regular maintenance shutdown until 30 March 2024.

On 01 March 2024, at 6:59 PM, the three units of PEDC went on shutdown resulting in a partial blackout of the Panay sub-grid and some parts of Negros. Around 80 MW of the power demand of Panay was served initially by the Negros-Panay submarine cable and later by the smaller power plants on the island. By 9:53 PM, one of the PEDC units returned online, followed by another PEDC unit by 11:22 PM. The third PEDC unit was synchronized back to the grid at 8:55 AM today, 02 March 2024.

Short-term solutions by the System Operator, such as using 10% head room of the large coal plants as contingency reserve, are currently in place. Long-term solutions are in the pipeline, such as the energization of several renewable and conventional power plants and the completion of transmission projects to support the power generation projects and the growth of the load centers. # # #

05/03/2024

SIGURADONG wasak din ang puso ngayon ng kaibigang assistant director ni Jaclyn Jose, na si Jo Macasa sa biglaang pagkamatay ng aktres.

04/03/2024

The March 1 Panay blackout was not a transmission problem. Read more...

'It's the generation or the supplies that failed, not NGCP,' says Metro Bacolod Chamber of Commerce and Industry CEO Frank Carbon

02/03/2024

More info on the unscheduled shutdown of PEDC plants

01/03/2024

WALANG KURYENTE ALERT! Dahil sa unplanned na shutdown ng PANAY ELECTRIC DEVELOPMENT COOPERATIVE (PEDC) nga kanilang Units 1, 2, at 3 (316MW) walang kuryente ang sakop na mga munisipyo sa Panay ngayong gabi, March 1, 2024. Apektado ang mga consumer mula sa Panay at Negros.

Taliwas ito sa mga kumakalat na na report na NEGP ang may problema. Ang totoo niyan, ang PEDC talaga ang may palya sa kanilang mga unit kaya’t walang kuryente ngayon! At hindi rin totoo na nasunog ang transmission lines ng NGCP. Panoorin ang video na ito: https://www.facebook.com/share/v/uBhiA1xV5uRegSLp/?mibextid=oFDknk

30/10/2023

Animnapu’t limang taong puno ng determinasyong nagbunga ng tagumpay para kay Henry Sy, Sr.

Sixty-five years ago, my father, Henry Sy, Sr., opened a small shoe store in downtown Manila

It was in October 1958, and at that time he thought, "If I could sell a pair of shoes to every Filipino, I would be a successful man."

But he did so much more than that. With his vision, passion to succeed, and hard work, the company has grown over the years and is now a publicly listed company in retail, property, banking, and portfolio investments.

My siblings and I were growing up when my father started his business. We had front-row seats to his extraordinary way of doing things. He has been our mentor, teaching us about business and life through coaching and through his example. Let me share some of these with you, one value at a time.

My father taught us that it was important to have a great passion to achieve. The adversities of World War II deprived my father of a quality education. However, knowing that education would make him go far, he pursued a college degree but had to stop after two years.

Opportunities were open for him to see the world; hence, he had to make a choice of going back to school or traveling to broaden his knowledge. He chose the latter.

Apart from intelligence and education, it is passion that makes a difference. It increases one's willpower. It is, in fact, the fuel for the will. Passion makes the impossible possible.

Your desires, he believed, determine your destiny. The stronger your willpower to achieve, the greater your potential. If you follow your passion, you become a more dedicated and productive person.

30/10/2023

Philippines and US Strengthen Defense Ties Amid Rising Tensions in WPS. PH agrees to boost cooperation in response to China's actions in the West Philippine Sea.

The Philippines is ‘not at war with China’ despite Beijing’s growing aggression in the WPS.

16/10/2023

"HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, WALANG ITINATAGO SA BUDGET!

Naglabas ng pahayag ang House of Representatives, sa ilalim ni Speaker Martin G. Romualdez na pasado ang Kongreso sa COA audit. Ayon sa COA report, malinis ang kanilang record.

12/09/2023

Marcos Supporters calls out Aboitiz and Davao Light's hogging of electric cooperatives in Mindanao, and seeks the help of the President to stop Aboitiz's schemes.

11/09/2023

"Mataas na presyo ng kuryente at pangit na serbisyo."

Davao Light and Sabin Aboitiz connection gets exposed. Mindanao calls for unity against Aboitiz's greed.

29/12/2021

‘Rizal: Para sa Agham, Katotohanan at Buhay’

LOOK: A Philippine Postal Corporation (PHLPost) employee shows the stamp of National Hero Dr. Jose P. Rizal on Wednesday, December 29, 2021 at the Philpost office in Manila to mark his 125th Anniversary Martyrdom with this year’s theme, Rizal: Para sa Agham, Katotohanan at Buhay. (MB photo by Ali Vicoy)

29/12/2021

The POC’s Ethics Committee concluded after its investigation that PATAFA President Philip Juico “harassed” EJ Obiena by making “malicious public accusations.”

29/12/2021

Nagpakilala na sa liga ang Meralco import na si Tony Bishop ⚡️ na kasalukuyang leader in points sa ating PBA Governors' Cup!

28/12/2021

PharmaServ Express’ Expertise and Commitment to the Filipino Help Bridge Logistics Gap in PH Vaxx Program 27 December 2021

Due to the worldwide pandemic, the country has experienced an enormous logistics gap that heavily affected the supply chain across industries. Supply of food and other basic goods in various areas was affected by lack of transportation, especially during lockdowns.  Thankfully, the country’s vacc...

29/11/2021

In a Facebook post, Dr. Edsel Salvana reiterated that maintaining minimum public health standards and COVID-19 vaccines are still everyone’s best defense against the virus.

An infectious disease expert prodded the public to avoid crowded places amid the threat of the new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) variant Omicron.

29/11/2021

Very accurate.

29/11/2021

At least 400 individuals from Toledo City in Cebu have benefitted from the services and programs of government and private agencies through the Presidential Commission for the Urban Poor’s (PCUP) mini caravan on Friday, Nov. 26.

The Nation's Leading Newspaper

29/11/2021

Galvez stayed at the command center of the NVOC in Pasay City during the launch of the program in the morning. He was scheduled to visit the vaccination in SM Masinag in Antipolo later in the day.

The Nation's Leading Newspaper

29/11/2021

The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) has announced the reimplementation of the number coding scheme in the National Capital Region (NCR) within this week.

The Nation's Leading Newspaper

29/11/2021

Ang mga pasya at mga gawa natin ang huwaran ng ating mga anak.

26/11/2021

FRIENDLY REMINDER: Iwasan ang mapaniwala sa kasinungalingan.

26/11/2021

MARIPOSA = Mare, i-post mo na!

25/11/2021

Based on the Department of Health’s (DOH) case bulletin, the active cases nationwide dropped to 17,864 or only 0.6 percent of the country’s overall tally since last year—which currently stood at 2,828,660.

The Nation's Leading Newspaper

25/11/2021

Aside from UNCLOS, Lorenzana also noted that the Permanent Court of Arbitration, in its 2016 ruling on a case filed by the Philippines, has said that China's territorial claim over the West China Sea has neither historic nor legal basis.

Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana on Thursday maintained that the Philippines has sovereign rights over Ayungin Shoal amid Beijing's call to Manila to remove its grounded vessel there.