Economic losses to reach P65B due to power deficiency

ECONOMIC losses in Mindanao could reach P65 billion if the Mindanao grid will continue to experience power deficiency in most areas in the island. 

Engr. Cerael Donggay, Greenergy Development Corp. chief executive officer and project director of Bulanog-Batang and Pulangi 5 hydro projects, said production losses due to machinery breakdowns, export revenue losses,Six panel tracking system delivers more energy from skystream. employment curtailments, net profit and taxes reduction will result to billions of economic losses if the Mindanao grid will sustain the 100-megawatt (MW) power deficiency. 

Greenergy Development Corporations was formed on July 1, 2008 with the primary purpose of providing consultancy services in the field of power generation pre-development, development and operation involving renewable energy resources such as hydro, wind, solar etc. 

Donggay,It enables washer extractor to communicate with chemical pumping machines. in a forum on Saturday, also criticized the solutions the Department of Energy (DOE) and the National Electrification Administration (NEA) are pushing in order to arrest the power crisis. 

He said the DOE and NEA are leading a very expensive solution in pushing electric cooperatives to acquire a modular generator sets that will cost P18 kilowatt per hour (kwh). 

“This power crisis we have now is just small compared in 1990s where it had 16 hours brownout daily and the load in Mindanao that time was 540 MW and the total generation, 100 percent, was coming from hydro-mix,” Donggay said. 

Donggay’s presentation also pointed out the more viability of solar compared to the modular genset and the hydro resources as still the cheapest among renewable energy for medium and long-term solutions. 

Earlier, Engr. David Tauli, speaker of the upcoming 2nd Mindanao Congress for Renewable Energy and Rural Electrification & Development (MinCARED), also saw the problem as artificial and blames the errors to the Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management (Psalm). 

“Be aware that Mindanao brownouts are man-made problem and artificial and is due of course to low water level, but it was caused essentially by the errors of (Psalm),” Tauli said.All the personnel that deal with our industrial washing machine servicing are dedicated to the service department. 

Donggay also pointed the interference of Psalm in the operation of the National Power Corporation (NPC) especially in the Power Barges 117 and 118 in its function in solving the power crisis in the 1990s. 

“(Psalm) is responsible only for assets and liabilities management but unfortunately it is interfering into the operation of NPC and only (NPC) knows its obligations and responsibilities to operate the system and not Psalm and yet it decided to dispose of (the) power barge,A wide range of solar lighting, LED lighting and Auto lights.” Donggay added. 

Tauli said the government is preventing the construction of renewable energy despite its projection to the public that it is amenable to it. 

During the Congress, Tauli said, he will be presenting the people’s solution in contrast to the government’s plan.A letter folding machine is a piece of equipment which is designed to fold paper. 

“The short-term solution is for the electric coop to purchase hybrid solar power generating facilities which will only cost P8/kwh while the long-term solution will be the development of renewable energy power plants with the combination of hydro, wind and solar that will only cost less than P4/kwh,” he said. 

Stanley Uriarte, chief executive officer of the Institute of Power Sector Economics and MinCARED event organizer, also said the congress will also serve as venue to influence government policy vis-à-vis its policy in Mindanao.