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AMRECO builds 100-MW power plant to address future power crisis


Mindanao Development Authority (MinDA) Director
RomeoMontenegro (R)accepts a token of appreciation
From (L) Siargao Electric Cooperative General Manager
Sergio Dagooc, president AMRECO) over-all chairman
of the Mindanao Congress of the Advocates for Renewable
Energy and Rural Electrification and Development
(MinCARED), and (C) Dr. Ricardo Rotoras, president of the
Mindanao University of Science and Technology and
MinCARED co-chairman.Montenegro, who is MinCARED
co-chairman. (Photo by BONG D. FABE)

 By Hirohito D. Cadion

PAGADIAN CITY, Jan. 27 (PNA) -– The Association of Mindanao Rural Electric Cooperatives (AMRECO) is putting up a 100-megawatt power plant in a bid to address the power crisis and to help regulate the power rate in the future here in Mindanao.

Zamboanga del Sur Electric Cooperative-1 (Zamsureco-1) information officer Liberal Cabatcha disclosed that the 100-MW diesel power plant of the GN Power Limited in now under construction in Kauswagan, Lanao del Norte and is expected to start operation by 2017.

Cabatcha said the GN Power Limited Company is owned by the Power Sector Aggregator Corporation (PSagCor), a subsidiary corporation of AMRECO.

Twenty-one of the 33 electric cooperatives operating here in Mindanao are members of AMRECO.

Cabatcha said that the GN Power Limited Company will be managed by the AMRECO officials headed by Siargao Electric Cooperative (SIARELCO) General Manager Sergio Dagooc as president and Zamsureco-1 General Manager Jose Raul Saniel as vice-president.

Cabatcha said the GN Power Limited Company will prioritize providing electricity to AMRECO-member electric cooperatives once it starts operations.

However, he said they will also sell power to non-AMRECO member electric cooperatives if there is still excess power. (PNA)
LAP/TPGJR/HIROHITO D. CADION/JSD

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