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 […]
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?
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 […]
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;
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;
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.
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 […]
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, […]
You will badly need this if your computer has no CD-ROM drive, especially for ASUS EEE-PC and Red fox Wizbook 800.
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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?
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 […]
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
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.
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 […]
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”.
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;
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 […]
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.
Posted in Softwares and Applications
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 […]
Posted in Hydro, Power Plants in the Philippines
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. […]
Posted in Others
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 […]
Posted in Internet - General
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.
Posted in Adsense/Web advertising
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 […]
Posted in Money and Investing