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.

Posted in Energy and Power, Supply Shortage

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.

Posted in Softwares and Applications

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 […]

Posted in Jobs, Philippine Electric Power Industry

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.

Posted in Wordpress

If you’re having a hard time trying to completely uninstall AVG due to missing uninstallation files, try this one;

Posted in Softwares and Applications

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 […]

Posted in ASUS

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.

Posted in Computers and Internet, Internet - General

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 […]

Posted in Softwares and Applications

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;

Posted in Transmission

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;

Posted in Computations and Methodologies

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.

Posted in Electricity Market

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 […]

Posted in Internet - General

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 […]

Posted in Computations and Methodologies

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.

Posted in Hydro, Power Plant Technology and Construction