The Energy Regulatory Commission is creating a template ruling for electric cooperatives that have signed power sales contracts with KEPCO-Salcon Power Corp. that is building a 200-megawatt coal-fired power plant in Naga City, Cebu, Roberto Montelibano, president of the Central Negros Electric Cooperative, said in a press conference yesterday.

CENECO is one of the seven electric cooperatives in the Visayas that will purchase power from KSPC starting 2011, along with Cebu Electric Cooperative 1, 2 and 3, Negros Oriental Electric Cooperative Inc. 1 and 2, and Negros Occidental Electric Cooperative Inc. They will purchase a total of 160 megawatts of power from KSPC, a company official said.

Arroyo statement
unbelievable: TFM

The statement of Rep. Ignacio Arroyo (5th Dist., Neg. Occ.) that the Arroyo landholdings in Negros Occidental could still be covered under the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program was described by the Task Force Mapalad yesterday as unbelievable.

TFM president Jose Rodito Angeles said in a press statement that Arroyo was just caught off guard by the Vera Files report published in a major national daily, mentioning that he had hurdled most of the requirements for conversion of the 157-hectare Hacienda Bacan in Isabela into agro-industrial land.

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