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[Klima Reports] Renewables best option for cheap energy in Mindanao
[Klima Reports] Renewables best option for cheap energy in Mindanao

[Klima Reports] Renewables best option for cheap energy in Mindanao

admin2022-12-06T18:16:04+08:0004 Dec 2022|Tags: energy crisis, energy transition, Germelina Lacorte, Jaime Espina Klima Correspondents Fellowship, Klima Fellowship, Klima Reports, Mindanao, renewable energy|

Assistant Secretary Romeo Montenegro, deputy executive director of the Mindanao Development Authority (Minda), loves to remember the time, not so long ago, when electricity rates in Mindanao hovered at P6 per kilowatt-hour, the lowest in the country. This was when hydroelectricity generated from the waters of Agus and Pulangi rivers made up the bulk of the region’s energy supply. The Agus and Pulangi plants had a combined installed capacity of 1,001.1 megawatts.

[Klima Reports] Regreening Mindanao grid
[Klima Reports] Regreening Mindanao grid

[Klima Reports] Regreening Mindanao grid

admin2022-12-06T15:36:45+08:0027 Nov 2022|Tags: ADDU, energy transition, Jaime Espina Klima Correspondents Fellowship, Klima Stories, Mindanao, Rooftop Solar, Solar Energy|

In the shift to renewables, all hands should be on-deck, from government actors, private stakeholders, the academe, and the community. In this two-part story, our Klima Fellows Germelina Lacorte and Barry Ohaylan speak with academics and engineers from the Ateneo de Davao University to learn about their efforts in greening their university and in extension, Davao City and Mindanao.

US ties up with Lopez-led EDC to study geothermal potential [BusinessWorld]
US ties up with Lopez-led EDC to study geothermal potential [BusinessWorld]

US ties up with Lopez-led EDC to study geothermal potential [BusinessWorld]

admin2022-11-24T16:15:56+08:0024 Nov 2022|Tags: Alberto Dalusung III, Business World, CEED, EDC, Enoh Ebong, geothermal, Gerry Arances, Mindanao, renewable, Richard B. Tantoco, USTDA|

A UNITED States agency is providing Lopez-led Energy Development Corp. (EDC) a grant of $413,120 to do a feasibility study for the development of a geothermal power plant in Mindanao. In a press release published on its website, the United States Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) said it launched along with US Vice President Kamala Harris the grant — valued at P23.56 million in the local currency — to study the geothermal potential of the southern island’s Amacan area.

Who is profiting from the power outages?
Who is profiting from the power outages?

Who is profiting from the power outages?

Ira Guerrero2021-09-10T11:09:02+08:0004 Sep 2021|Tags: Alberto Dalusung III, BusinessMirror, coal, Energy, Jephraim Manansala, Mindanao, Mitsubishi Power, power outages|

by Alberto Dalusung III and Jephraim Manansala | September 4, 2021 | Published by BusinessMirror | READ THE STORY HERE Power outages are back with a vengeance. Those of us in Luzon remember the rotating brownouts from May 31 to June 1. More recently, there was a blackout that affected the whole of Eastern Visayas, [...]

Where turtles go
Where turtles go

Where turtles go

admin2019-03-09T12:01:32+08:0023 May 2018|Tags: Celebes Sea, Mindanao, Rio Constantino, Sulu, Turtle Islands, turtles|

by Rio Constantino Editor’s Note: Rio Constantino is a Grade-12 student at the Philippine Science High School — Main Campus. He volunteered to join ICSC's Francis Dela Cruz and Janssen Mozar Martinez in a trip to the Turtle Islands earlier this month in cooperation with the Turtle Conservation Society of the Philippines. _ At the southern [...]