Negros power woes persist amid hopeful signs from Vis-Min interconnection

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Bacolod business leader says they need more power plants and not rely on Mindanao's excess energy

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During the Negros Power Forum in Bacolod City, the Metro Bacolod Chamber of Commerce and Industry , a group of businessmen in Bacolod and Negros Occidental, expressed alarm over theBut the chief of the DOE’s Industry Management Division in the Visayas, Engineer Joey Rey Malleza, said he was optimistic that the problem would soon be remedied upon the full commissioning of the 230-kilovolt Cebu-Negros-Panay Interconnection Project of the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines on March 31.

Currently, Negros’ only embedded power generation plant is the 120-MW Energy Development Corporation’s Palinpinon Geothermal Power Plant in Valencia town, Negros Oriental.Although Negros has several solar plants, including the 132-MW plant in Cadiz City, which is currently the largest in Southeast Asia, they are still not considered “sustainable” yet, Carbon said.

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