Magat Hydro Electric Power Plant was constructed by the National Power Corporation on Feb. 16, 1980 – Dec. 31, 1983 at a cost of US$83.7 Million (Power Plant component only). It is composed of 4 generating units with 90 MW rated capacity each (total of 360 MW). Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Hydro, Power Plants in the Philippines, Small and Large Hydro
The Combined Cycle Gas Turbine Power Plant in Limay, Bataan was constructed under a turnkey Design and Build Contract, a Build-Transfer-Operated (BTO) Scheme, between NPC and the consortium of ABB/Marubeni Corporation/Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Diesel/Oil Fueled, Power Plants in the Philippines
During these times when the inflation rate is surging to almost two-digit rate, leaving your money in a savings deposit, or worse, just inside your safety box, is like letting your money lose its value or its purchasing power. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Fixed Income
I felt so dumb when I first installed my prepaid SMART Bro modem driver/software on my Asus EEE PC. I really thought that the installer is in the red CD but no, what the CD contained is the installer for MAC OS. Read the rest of this entry »
Distributors of ETAP (Electrical Power System Analysis) Software in the Philippines will be conducting a 3-day workshop to become proficient in ETAP to conduct power system studies, from modeling to analysis. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Power Flow
I thought that my quest for a better web host has already ended when I shifted from a local web hosting company to Godaddy. But the situation just turned from bad to worse. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Domains and Web hosting
After knowing about Smart Bro a few weeks ago, I finally got one for Php4,500 (preloaded with Php 30 worth of one and a half hours of internet connection) this morning.
The package is so simple; just a 1” x 2.2” modem, two sets of USB extension wire, a CD installer (for MAC), and a SMART Bro Sim card. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Smart Bro
I don’t know why after these throwing of accusations and blames on why the cost of electricity in the Philippines is high – there are the issues of system loss, cross ownership, WESM, transmission charges, and NPC stranded cost – the President of the Philippines, herself, is not doing her part that is, actually, mandated to her by the Law that she, herself, signed in 2001 to drastically reduced the electricity rates. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Philippine Electric Power Industry, Reforms/EPIRA
Too much has been said and many people, mostly politicians, had already expressed their opinions about the distribution system loss. But what really is “system loss”? Can distribution utilities (DU’s) remove it or not to pass it to consumers? Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in MERALCO, Philippine Electric Power Industry
There are many hydro electric power plants in the Philippines dispersedly located in the various areas in the countrysides of Luzon Visayas and Mindanao. Almost all of the large hydro electric plants, which ranged from over 50 MW, are connected to the main transmission grid, while most of small (10 MW to 50 MW) and mini (101 kW to 10 MW) hydro plants are embedded to the local distribution system. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Hydro, Mini-hydro, Power Plants in the Philippines, Small and Large Hydro
I`m testing out this useful plug in of Dimox. Although the author can’t avoid some bugs, the plug-in, as a whole, is great.
If you are a user of this plug-in and happens to encounter the following sql error; Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Wordpress
For almost three years, this website had been hosted by a web hosting company based in Manila, Philippines, using, then, starter 150 MB Linux Plan, for which, I pay a measly Php 150.00 (US$ 3.6) per month. However, there were some hassles; Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Domains and Web hosting
While reviewing web hosting companies where I can transfer my website, I came across to Webhosting.Info, a good review website for web hosting and domain registrar companies all over the globe. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Domains and Web hosting
It seems that, based on the Senate investigation today, and as I was also expecting, MERALCO is not the only one “responsible” to this, so called, “high cost of electricity” in MERALCO franchise area, which covers Metro Manila. Napocor (NPC) and TransCo are also “involved”, as well. High transmission charges, generation adjustments and stranded cost are some of the issues that were brought about to these two government corporations.
And speaking of Napocor, here is an issue that seems remained silent and may only be known to some industry participants for almost two years now Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in MERALCO, Napocor/PSALM
I didn’t know that Vicente “Vince” Perez, the former Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary, is one of the directors of PNOC-EDC, even at First Gen’s control of the geothermal company. And it’s good to have him as a director because his vast experience in energy sector would guide the company to the right direction, assuming he’s honest to goodness of the company’s vision. Remember that he was then an appointee of GMA in the DOE. Read the rest of this entry »
You will badly need this if your computer has no CD-ROM drive, especially for ASUS EEE-PC and Red fox Wizbook 800.
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Posted in Personal Computers and Laptops, Windows XP
Even though the information that we could find in the internet is vast and is continuously expanding and the search engines has also been continuously upgrading its technology to organize the content of the web and to deliver a more comprehensive, better, and faster results, we still find it hard to find what we exactly are looking for. One such example of these things that is hard to find in the internet is a reliable and non-bogus mp3 download sites. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Internet - General
I think awareness of the global warming issue is already enough and all we need now is a radical and concrete action.
So what’s next after the Earth Hour campaign, another awareness campaign? We can’t solve this crisis by just giving awareness. We need an action that will have a sure and big impact to solve this problem. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Polution and Global Warming
Too much has been said about this issue of the looming Global Warming. However, aside from using this issue for political and popularity, and maybe, business gain, of some individuals and groups, very little is being done to solve this problem. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Polution and Global Warming
I think Mr. Butch del Castillo of the Business Mirror still need to have a deeper research to correct his understanding on his cited example in his article on this issue of the Business Mirror , “Expect a long, hot summer” - March 25, 2008, which according to him, Quezon Power is owned by the Lopez Family; Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Generation Companies
We’re not justifying that coal power plants is good, but I think, considering the magnitude of contribution to the world wide CO2 emissions, Green Peace should focus their battle against coal in the United States rather than in small countries like Philippines. Why? Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Polution and Global Warming
Just for us to be more knowledgeable about our industry, I`ll give some general information about the existing and decommissioned power plants in the Philippines. Some of them might not be as big as a hundred of Megawatt Plant, but still, it is interesting to know. Let’s start with the Baligatan Hydro Plant in Isabela.
Posted in Power Plants in the Philippines, Small and Large Hydro
This is an erratum to my previous article about what really is the first and oldest power plant in the Philippines. Though it’s correct that those mentioned plants are indeed the first and oldest hydro plants in the Philippines, the real first electric generating plant in the country was the Central Power Plant on Calle San Sebastian (now R. Hidalgo) in Manila City. It was built by La Electricista, the Philippine’s first electric company. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Power Plants in the Philippines
Renewable energy or not?
Most of the people might outrightly conclude that any geothermal energy sources, like what PNOC-EDC and Chevron Geothermal and Power owned and operated in the Philippines, is renewable because of what it seems infinitely abundant source - the heat of the Earth. But experiences showed that it is not always the case Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in EDC, Geothermal Energy
For almost a long time, US$ 1.0 Million was adopted as a good “rule of thumb” or the approximate US dollar per MW of investment in constructing a new power plant. However, due to the surging price of raw materials and inflation rate, the cost of building a plant also increased. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Power Plant Technology and Construction
As of this posting date, Feb. 14, 2008, I would like to get the attention of electrical engineers out there, preferably Registered Electrical Engineer and graduate of any reputable school, that First Gen Corporation, the largest Filipino-owned Independent Power Producer in the Philippines and the Majority share holder of PNOC-EDC, the largest geothermal steam supplier in the Philippines, is looking for Electrical Engineers to be assigned on the following positions; Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Jobs
All transformers generate gases to some extent at normal operating temperatures. But occasionally a gas-generating abnormality does occur within an operating transformer such as a local or general overheating, dielectric problems, or a combination of these. In electrical equipment, these abnormalities are called “faults”. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Transformers
Sometimes the computer admin, or even the user, would want to protect the content of their folders and the files in it by setting the folder permission to disallow access of other users of that computer. Here’s how; Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Windows XP
Anyone who may see this model of laptop would be really tempted to buy one. Its stylish design and portability make it a hit for a person who is always mobile. The price is also affordable.
However, taking a look at its basic specification, consumers must first think twice to buy this laptop model at this early stage of its development. Why?
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Posted in ASUS
Some windows user who were annoyed with the functionality of MS Office 2007 and decided to remove it and went back to Office 2003 may find it difficult to remove this more than 1 gigabyte of software because it has no uninstallation program and cannot be removed through “Add/Remove Programs” in the Control Panel. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Softwares and Applications
