Murcia Mayor Esteban Coscolluela yesterday said he has asked the PNOC-Energy Development Corp. to make a formal offer to supply power to the Central Negros Electric Cooperative.

Coscolluela told the DAILY STAR he wrote PNOC-EDC last week after its president, Paul Aquino, informed Negros Occidental Gov. Joseph Marañon in November that PNOC-EDC will have sufficient power supply by 2010 and beyond.

PNOC-EDC will have a 30-megawatt capacity by 2010 and 40 MW by 2011 and onwards, based on Aquino's letter to Marañon, he said.

Coscolluela said that's why he is surprised by a report he read from a local newspaper (not the DAILY STAR), quoting a supposedly PNOC official that PNOC-EDC is facing a power shortage.

He said that he also talked to Agnes de Jesus, PNOC-EDC vice president for environment and external relations, who denied any statement from the company stating that they are facing power shortage.

“In a week or two, the most, they will submit their formal offer to CENECO,” Coscolluela said.

CENECO president Roberto Montelibano had earlier said the cooperative will also source power from PNOC-EDC, First Farmers Holding Corp., and Hawaiian-Philippine Company to meet CENECO's demand for power after 2010 aside from KEPCO Salcon Power Corp. which will build a coal-fired power plant in Naga, Cebu.*NLG

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