First coal-fired power plant up by end 2010
ILOILO CITY – The first commercially viable coal-fired power plant in Western Visayas will be commissioned by the last quarter of 2010 at its site at Brgy. Ingore, La Paz, Iloilo City. .
This was announced by Engr. Adrian Moncada, president of the Global Business Power Corp., proponent of the P16 billion power plant investments during the Power 101 power situationer report conducted by the Iloilo Business Club was April 17, 2009 at the Hotel del Rio here.
Moncada admitted that landfill development is currently ongoing in the 24-hectare site and actual construction will start by July or August this year.
The project is expected to generate 164 megawatts out to offset the imbalance power supply in this city and the rest of Iloilo province.
Panay Power Corp. (PPC), a nearby sister company of Global Power, has a power capacity of 140 MW dependable but has only 83 MW with a limited supply from the Panay diesel plant. The plant engines of PPC are only good for two years and there is an urgent need for supply augmentation, the Global Business Power official pointed out. Read more…
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[...] This was announced by Engr. Adrian Moncada, president of the Global Business Power Corp., proponent of the P16 billion power plant investments during the Power 101 power situationer report conducted by the Iloilo Business Club was April 17, 2009 at the Hotel del Rio here. Read more… [...]
This is pathetic and unconscionable, is IBC an accomplice to this environmental crime?
GBPC/Metrobank is now illegally converting the mangrove area in the mouth of Jaro River that destroy the water recharge area and aggravate flooding in the city. The coal plant is not a solution but will be the major problem of the energy situation in Panay.
I’m sorry to say that I don’t agree with what Melvin is trying to convey here. I don’t think what GBPC’s doing is illegal considering that the project is well supported and meet the criteria on environmental concerns (ECC-approved). The project is closely-monitored by the committee and by other concerns government and NGO agencies. Let’s stop confusing our fellow Ilonggos and pointing on wrong direction by giving such statement. Thank you.
ako ya isa lang mahambal ko damo pana pasiburno nga mga openion maski dri sa america mga coal power plan man ang ginagamit kag damo nga nagumwad nga mga pungsod amo man ang ginagamit sang mga industralized nga mga countries maski cebu progressive man haw? kulang ang electricity support sang iloilo kag tama ka mahal ang peco kag indi kaya amo na naga palagyo ang mga investors dra kay mahal.Pagtumindog ina amo na ina ang time damo masulod gid nga mga investors pa… Go Iloilo
the thing is, climate change is upon us, last year there was frank, now Ondoy and Pepeng and god knows who else. a lot of “firsts” are currently being experienced around us. do i need to elaborate? there are a lot of energy source aside from coal and it seems the government is doing a good job in keeping renewable energy underwraps even if such technology is being used by other regions in the country. Climate Change is not an act of God, it is an act of man. and by the way, there’s no such thing as “Clean Coal”…
in a nation-state where corruption becomes a culture of everyday life or has already entrenched the psyche of every filipino that exposing it is tantamount to be a deviant, no amount of reason can justify the inefficiency of the Philippine institutions we once hold dear. a close scrutiny of what really transpired on the transaction between the city of iloilo and that coal-fired company reveals a highly irregular venture, a perfect example of what Dr. Ma. Cecilia Locsin-Nava “appearance management”.
About tourism, does anybody know how to contact the department of tourism. Specifically for guimaras.
I have read a lot about how they are trying so hard to promote tourism, but there is no information about how to contact the tourism department.
All i can say Iloilo needs it ,please dont stop the Iloilo Power plant we support that one,because we need it badly for the development of iloilo no one can help that problem.Go ILOILO Go so that a lot of Investors will come to Iloilo so there will be more jobs for Ilonggos.
Climate change is upon all of us in the world, not only in Iloilo City. So be spared in saying that the coal plant will change the climate of the world? It must be that huge to create such havoc. Pepeng, Ondoy, Frank were natural disasters. What has a coal plant in Iloilo have to do with it? Will it stop Ondoy or Frank if we will not continue the coal plant? I don’t think so. But there is one sure thing that will definitely happen to Iloilo City without coal plant — the city will go downhill – no investors for a city with a brownout of almost half a day everyday, no BPOs will put sites without good supply of energy, no big businesses will come to Iloilo — which means, no jobs for Ilonggos. Without a job, poverty increases — maybe worst than what will the unmonitored coal plant will give. So please, don’t confuse people here that a new technology clean coal plant is the reason for typhoons.