NUCLEAR power is not an option for the Visayas and Mindanao because the power plants producing it would be too large for the two markets, Aboitiz Power Corp. said over the weekend.
“You have to build 1,000 or 1,500 megawatts for a nuclear plant. How can you put it in Mindanao, when the entire peak load there is 1,300 megawatts?” Aboitiz chief executive Erramon Aboitiz said.
Mindanao and the Visayas would need extra power soon, but nuclear plants would take time to build, Aboitiz said.
“How long will it take to train people? To build the plant and get the permits?” Aboitiz said.
“The estimate that I got was 10 years.”
Aboitiz also said it would cost between $6 million and $8 million to extract a megawatt of electricity from a nuclear plant, but only $2 million to get a megawatt of power from a coal-fired plant.
Nuclear plants might be feasible in Luzon, but those would affect the natural gas-fired plants in Palawan.
“What do we do with all the gas that we find?” Aboitiz said.
“What do we do with all the gas we expect to find and that we should be using for power generation?”
Energy Secretary Jose Rene Almendras said his department would be willing to study nuclear power, but ruled out reviving the mothballed Nuclear Power Plant in Bataan. –Alena Mae S. Flores, Manila Standard Today
July 2025
Nutrition Month
“Give us much more than P50 increase
for proper nutrition!”
Invoke Article 33 of the ILO Constitution
against the military junta in Myanmar
to carry out the 2021 ILO Commission of Inquiry recommendations
against serious violations of
Forced Labour and Freedom of Association protocols.
Accept National Unity Government (NUG)
of Myanmar. Reject Military!
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July
3 July – International Day of Cooperatives
3 July – International Plastic Bag Free Day
5 July – World Youth Skills Day
7 July – Global Forgiveness Day
11 July – World Population Day
17 July – World Day for International Justice
28 July – World Nature Conservation Day
30 July – World Day against Trafficking in Persons
Monthly Observances:
Schools Safety Month
Nutrition Month
National Disaster Consciousness Month
Weekly Observances:
Week 2: Cultural Communities Week
Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprise
Development Week
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Technology Week
National Disability Prevention and
Rehabilitation Week
July 1-7:
National Culture Consciousness Week
July 13-19:
Philippines Business Week
Week ending last Saturday of July:
Arbor Week
Daily Observances:
First Saturday of July:
International Cooperative Day
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