Manila Bulletin
By Myrna M. Velasco
Published: July 31, 2013
From traditional dependence on bunker-C fired power generation, Oriental Mindoro is shifting to a ‘cleaner option” with the P1.5-billion mini-hydro power plant being developed by local firm Ormin Power, Inc., a subsidiary of listed company Jolliville Holdings Corporation.
At the proposed facility’s groundbreaking rites, Energy Secretary Carlos Jericho Petilla said the 10-megawatt project will be the answer to the area’s bid for dependable and competitively-priced energy supply.
He stressed that the government’s “commitment is to make sure that we have sustainable energy, to make it affordable, and to make it rightly-priced.” The plant is targeted for commercial commissioning in 2016.
The output of the facility will be sold to Oriental Mindoro Electric Cooperative, Inc. (Ormeco), which serves 14 municipalities and Calapan City.
The energy chief similarly bared the government’s plan to put up a renewable energy hub in Batangas, which will stretch all the way to Mindoro. Petilla sees that happening “in two to three years time”; and will be an added significant detail in the National Renewable Energy Program.
Between two basic commodities of water and electricity, Petilla articulated that power supply ranks higher given its multiplier effect on an area’s economy.
On the project developer’s part, Jolliville Holdings chairman and chief executive officer Jolly Ting averred that “the hydro power plant will help stabilize power to contribute to the growth of Oriental Mindoro.”
For the local officials like Governor Alfonso Umali, the hydro power plant “will solve the close to four- hour power outages in the island-province.”
Ormin Power is considerably an entrenched investor in the province as it has also been operating the 6.4-megawatt bunker fuel power facility in Calapan City, or the so-called “Gateway to the Golden Isle” given its bustling economy anchored on its offer of coastal paradise to tourists. source
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