First and Oldest (Hydroelectric) Power Plants in the Philippines

ERRATUM Here…..

There is a very little, if not none, documents that will verify what power plant is the very first in the Philippines. However, based on the author’s personal visit to some of the plants, and some research and conversation with some reliable individuals from the industry, he compiled some of the oldest power plants in the Philippines, all hydroelectric power plants, and most are still operational today. Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in Hydro, Power Plants in the Philippines

The Mitsubishi Electric Corp (Japan) Technical Support

I was a little pissed-off these past couple of days.

I was trying hard to trace the Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM), the Mitsubishi Electric Corp (MELCO), of our 31 year old power transformers in one of our power plants to ask some technical support for their equipment that they installed in our plant 3 decades ago. Look simple but tracing the right people who can give me a definite answer to my inquiry is really hard. Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in Others

(PC Tips Box) pctipsbox.com Steals Website Content

Webmasters of the world, here is an example of content theft (or should i call it spam). After spending a day of research and article writing just to come-up with this article, How to Download Books from Books.Google.Com, pctipsbox.com just copied it and posted it here, http://www.pctipsbox.com/how-to-download-books-from-google. And shame on this idiot, he/she made an exact copy of my article. What the f…..

I know I`m not the only victim of this thief, So, let’s voice ourselves before it, too, happens to you.

Posted in Internet - General

How to Price Advertisement Placement in your Website

If you own a website that is fairly popular and consistently receives relatively large of visitors everyday, you may want to monetize it by placing advertisements.
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Posted in Adsense/Web advertising

Income Tax Comparison Among Countries

For all Filipino employees who are working on private sector, and always feel bitter every time that you look at your payslip and start to realize where the government has been spending the portion of your hard-earned salary, here’s some fact to mend your hearth. According to www. worldwide-tax. Com data, income tax rate in the Philippines is high but not yet the highest in the world (hurray!!). VAT also in the Philippines is one of the lowest (hurray again!!!). (Hope it will make you feel a little better.) Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in Money and Investing

Thailand and Philippines on Energy Planning: An Overview

Having the impression of both struggling from being a third-world country in the South East Asia, now, let us have a brief look on the energy planning of Philippines and Thailand.
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Posted in Energy and Power, Supply Shortage

How to Convert Scanned Document to Editable Text

There are some instances in your work that you need to change or edit “already a hard copy”, scanned to pdf or tif files, or simply a file with no more existing editable softcopy. Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in Softwares and Applications

US Power Industry is in Need of Power (Electrical) Systems Engineers

In the March/April 2007 issue of IEEE Power and Energy Magazine, one of the authors wrote an article citing a possible crisis in the US power industry, that is, a possible shortage of technical talents of Power Engineers. The author was referring to a report submitted by the Department of Energy to the US Congress with the following finding; Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in Jobs, Philippine Electric Power Industry

Wordpress Mod: Showing Only Post Title on Category Pages

Sometimes, you may want to “compact” all your post in your Wordpress web blog by making the post title the only visible for all your posts. That is, the content will not be shown in the main page - only the title. See sample; http://www.jcmiras.net/wiki/category/electrical. Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in Wordpress

How to Completely Uninstall AVG

If you’re having a hard time trying to completely uninstall AVG due to missing uninstallation files, try this one; Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in Softwares and Applications

A Possible Design Flaw of ASUS A8HE (A8HSeries) Laptop

Last July, I decided to buy a laptop using my savings from Stock Trading and Google Adsense. Because of my limited budget (Php42,000) I have to balance the quality versus cost of this laptop. I want a laptop that has a “name”, and has some “a little advanced” features like video cam, wireless connection, core duo, and a DVD support. I later decided to buy ASUS A8HE at Php 40,000 with free bag, Asus RX3041 router, and Logitech mouse. Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in ASUS

How to Download Books from Books.Google.Com

This is, definitely, not a hack for Google to hate this post. This will just teach you how to copy and retrieve the files that Books.Google.Com temporarily saved in your computer before showing it to you through internet browser. Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in Computers and Internet, Internet - General

The Best Free AntiVirus / Anti-Spyware Program Ever

There is no better way of comparing free Anti-virus/Anti-spyware programs other than personal experience. And when it comes to the experience of a person who regularly installs unpopular and fairly unreliable software from the internet, and he who occasionally browse virus and spyware infested “pron”, mp3 download, and software hacking sites, I personally recommend, either or all, Antivir, AVG, and Norton Security and Spyware Doctor. Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in Softwares and Applications

TransCo Now Operated by a Private Company

Now that TransCo is to be operated (the ownership remains with the Government) by China’s State Grid, a private entity, I have a lot of questions in mind that needs a concrete answer; Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in Transmission

Computation of Reliability Factor

This is odd; a simple term “computation of plant reliability factor” gives no good resource website when searched using Google. Anyway, reliability factor is just the complement of Forced Outage Rate (FOR). That is; Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in Computations and Methodologies

Technical Reason Why Price of Electricity in WESM is High at High Demand Periods

We should know by now that price of electricity in the spot market is not dictated with the commercial aspects alone but also, with the technical aspects of the system, specifically, the constraint in transmission system. Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in Electricity Market

How to Download Slides in Slideshare.net

My friend asked my help to download some of the power point presentation, of her interest, in slideshare. net since some of the files that she wants are not available for download.

Slideshare. net is like youtube where anyone can upload and share (through flash player) their useful and informative power point presentation. Unfortunately, most of these slides are not downloadable. Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in Internet - General

Development of Models and Methodology for the Segregation of Distribution System Losses for Regulation

I really never thought that I will be part of this paper, http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=4142486, about the segregation of system losses, i.e., technical, non-technical, and administrative losses of the electric distribution systems and be published by IEEE. It is now one of the research papers that you cannot access unless you have a paid membership on this organization.
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Posted in Computations and Methodologies

The Dinorwig Pumped Storage Hydroelectric Plant

While studying the technical, financial, and operational aspects of a pump storage hydro plant, I came across to the Dinorwig power station which was mentioned in the text book that I was reading. Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in Hydro, Power Plant Technology and Construction

Expect a Higher Electric Bill this Christmas

While preparing for Christmas season, don’t forget to watch and monitor your electricity consumption because you might be shocked with your electric bill early next year.
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Posted in Electricity Market

Pantabangan - Masiway HEP Turnover Ceremony Today

Though the actual turnover of 100MW Pantabangan and 12 MW Masiway Hydro Electric Power plants to First Gen in Nueva Ecija is scheduled on Nov. 18, 2006, Saturday, the turnover ceremony will be conducted today (Nov. 17) at the plant site at around 10 AM. Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in Energy and Power, First Gen

Job Opportunity at Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering in South Korea

Continued from HERE…

3. Electrical, Instrument & Control Field
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Posted in Jobs

Job Opportunity in Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering, South Korea

A friend of mine who is, currently, working in Korea emailed me the following job opportunities for various engineering positions. I think this is good. Unfortunately, I am forced to work here in the Philippines because of my contract with DOST. Someone of you may grab this opportunity.
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Posted in Jobs

Power Industry Reform to Aggravate the Sector’ s Bankruptcy

While many envisioned that EPIRA (RA 9136) will remove the National Government’s burden from the indebtedness of power sector through restructuring of the industry and privatization of NPC assets, here comes another loan of the Philippine Government that is dedicated to the power sector for the further deregulation and privatization of power generation in the country. Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in Reforms/EPIRA

What Caused the Luzon Wide Blackout at the Height of Typhoon “Milenyo”

Anyone might ask why the typhoon “Milenyo” that hit the southern part of Luzon and Metro Manila on Sep. 28, 2006 can cause a Luzon wide blackout since only a portion of the island was ruined by the typhoon. Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in Electric Transmission System, Transmission

MIRANT: From Generation Company to Supply Business

While fast tracking the sale of its generation plant (1200 MW Sual Coal Fired Power, 700 MW Pagbilao Coal Fired Power Plant, and some portion of 1200 MW Ilijan CCGT) assets, Mirant Philippines is now intending to still pursue their electricity related business in the Philippines, now, as a part of the Supply Sector. Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in Supply Sector

Investigation of PSALM and NPC’ s Alleged Manipulation of Electricity Prices

In the past few weeks, the Philippine electric power industry has, once again, became a hot topic in news and media, now, the focus was on the Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management Corporation (PSALM) and the National Power Corporation (Napocor or NPC) alleged manipulation of the cost of electricity in the Wholesale Electricity Spot Market (WESM), which resulted to the increase of the price of electricity starting in the past few months. Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in Electricity Market, Napocor/PSALM

NPC/PSALM Cannot Deny their Power to Control the Price of Electricity

Nearly one and a half weeks after the implementation of WESM in the Philippines, we predicted, base from the available data and statements of energy officials, that Napocor will surely loss from power sales in the new power industry set-up. Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in Electricity Market, Napocor/PSALM

El Nino Already Started on Early September

According to the Climate Prediction Center (CPC) of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), as of early September, 2006, conditions for El Nino Phenomenon has already developed and are likely to continue until early 2007. Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in Issues and Concerns

Does Rate of Global Warming Slowing?

In the last decades (1984-2005), scientists observed a slowing build-up of atmospheric methane (CH4) due to the decline of its emission. Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in Polution and Global Warming