SunStar Power Watch: Ceneco consumers to suffer from over P360M in ‘overpriced’ cost amid power deal extension
NEGROS. Following the one year extension of contract for a 20-megawatt power supply with Kepco Salcon Power Corp., consumer group Power Watch Negros said there’s an overpricing on the contract cost entered by Ceneco with the power generation utility. (Contributed photo)
+ May 28, 2021 WHILE they agreed that there was no overcontracting in the one year extension for the 20-megawatt (MW) power contract of Central Negros Electric Cooperative (Ceneco) with Kepco Salcon Power Corp. (KSPC), a consumer group leader believed that there was an overpricing instead amounting to over P360 million that member-consumers have to pay for in the succeeding months.
May 11, 2021 CONSUMER group Power Watch Negros has manifested its opposition against the proposal for extension of the existing power sales contract (PSC) of Central Negros Electric Cooperative (Ceneco) with Kepco Salcon Power Corp. (KSPC), saying it constitutes overcontracting.
Wennie Sancho, secretary general of Power Watch Negros, said the proposed one-year extension will surely result in overcontracting, wherein the huge trading losses will be charged as rate spikes to the unsuspecting consumers.
Sancho said consumers will again pay for the power supply they did not use. We are still paying the P232 million unnominated and unaccepted contract quantity which are merely a euphemism to justify overcontracting, he added.
SunStar Village chief, 11 others test positive for coronavirus in Bago
NEGROS. The hall of Barangay Dulao in Bago City remains closed since May 1 as the punong barangay and nine other officials and personnel test positive for Covid-19. (Contributed photo)
+ May 04, 2021 TEN barangay officials and personnel, and two residents of Barangay Dulao in Bago City tested positive for Sars-CoV-2, which causes the coronavirus disease (Covid-19).
Punong Barangay Nida Golvio confirmed to SunStar Bacolod that she, her two kagawads and Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) chairman tested positive for the virus.
The other personnel included one tanod and five staff, including the barangay treasurer. Two family members of a kagawad also tested positive for the virus.
May 03, 2021 BARELY two years and five months after he and his wife survived an ambush, former Bacolod City councilor Ricardo Cano Tan made his first public appearance to announce that he made it through the storm after having been cleared from alleged illegal drug links.
An emotional Tan, who faced the media at their family-owned Campuestohan Highland Resort in Talisay City on Sunday, May 2, said justice has finally been served.
The former city official, in the presence of his lawyer, Andrei Normal Saril, presented a copy of the certification from the Police Regional Office (PRO)-Western Visayas clearing his name and that of his family from any links or participation to alleged illegal drug trade activities.