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With Typhoon “Ompong” battering Luzon and causing power outages in the region, the power restoration efforts of the National Electrification Administration (NEA) had received a huge boost with 14 Central Luzon electric cooperatives (ECs) extending assistance to NEA Power Restoration Rapid Deployment (PRRD) Task Force teams deployed to heavily-hit Cagayan province. Reynaldo Villanueva, President of […]
State-run National Electrification Administration (NEA) and its partner electric cooperatives (ECs) are still on course to meet the goal of delivering 460,000 new consumer electricity connections for this year. According to data from the NEA Information Technology and Communication Services Department (ITCSD), new consumer connections for the January-July period reached 304,674 or 66 percent of […]
Two of the biggest electric cooperative (EC) groups in the country expressed grave concerns over the “publicity-driven” attempts of a private for-profit entity wanting to enter the power sector to “paint itself as a savior of rural electrification,” in what they tagged as a “concerted drive to undermine grassroots people’s organizations deeply embedded in the […]
In his keynote speech, at the inauguration of the new headquarters of Nueva Ecija I Electric Cooperative, Inc. (NEECO-1) in San Isidro, Nueva Ecija last August 30, Masongsong said that while rural electrification has allowed more Filipinos to gain access to television and other forms of mass media for the past 49 years, he is […]
The National Electrification Administration (NEA) is looking at solar photovoltaic (PV) systems and other alternatives to speed up electrification in rural and remote areas where about two million households are still waiting for steady and reliable power services. NEA Administrator Edgardo Masongsong said the agency has began exploring several strategies to light up the remaining […]
Senator Win Gatchalian wants to infuse new technology into the efforts to achieve 100-percent electrification in rural areas of the Philippines, especially in isolated islands and other remote areas. Gatchalian, who chairs the Senate Committee on Energy, said the goal of his committee is to encourage the Department of Energy to look for innovative solutions […]
State-run National Electrification Administration (NEA) marked its month-long observance of the 9th National Electrification Awareness Month (NEAM) and the 49th Founding Anniversary of the agency by trumpeting the gains of the government’s rural electrification programs for nearly five decades. In his welcome remarks at the opening ceremony of the NEA-EC Consultative Conference on Monday (August […]
Budget limitations will not deter the state-run National Electrification Administration (NEA) from its commitment to bring electricity to every household in the far-flung corners of the country. NEA Administrator Edgardo Masongsong reiterated this on Wednesday as he revealed that the agency would be receiving P1.163 billion from the national government to finance electrification projects for […]