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Friday, July 07, 2006
PFMC okays Capitol power connection: Tupas
By Lory Ann B. Bilbao
ILOILO Governor Niel D. Tupas Sr. defended anew the power connection plan of the Provincial Government to the National Power Corporation (NPC) through the Philippine Foremost Milling Corporation (PFMC).
Tupas reiterated that the PFMC administration has given them the consent to connect the province's P13 million-transmission lines to its connections with the NPC.
The PFMC was formerly a consumer of the Panay Electric Company Inc. (Peco) but has sought the intervention of the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) to decide on its petition for a change in its power source to NPC.
Despite the opposition of the Peco on the said petition, the ERC resolved that the PFMC deserves the materialization of its petition.
The Provincial Government has earlier filed a similar petition before the ERC, so its transmission lines would be utilized and savings from electric cost would be incurred by the former in return of the money spent for the construction and purchase of the materials of the transmission lines.
For more or less four years now, the lines located at the back of the Provincial Capitol building remain idle.
The ERC has already conducted hearings as to the petition and very recently, Peco Legal Counsel Salvador Altura was granted of his 10 days preparation of the company's justification of opposition.
(July 7, 2006 issue)
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