The Benguet Electric Cooperative through the interim board of directors (BOD) and ma-nagement is continuing efforts for the renewal of its license and in encouraging its more than 140,000-strong member-consumers to pay their share capital, which is a requirement for its application to register as a stock cooperative. The issues were among the challenges that
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.