Island grid has more than 50% reserve power for summer

With majority of power plants operating normally, the Catanduanes grid has 50% more available power than required this summer. Based on the Daily Power Supply & Demand Power Outlook issued…

INSIDE PAGE | Fernan A. Gianan:

The two Congress bets on the power issue

Last April 19-21, technical personnel of FICELCO headed by Technical Services Department head Engr. Francis Gianan traveled to Camarines Sur to meet with the technical team of CASURECO IV headed…

Submarine power cable project here ‘top priority’

The National Transmission Corporation (Transco) has identified the Catanduanes grid interconnection project as its top priority, with four technical teams coming over last week for data gathering and actual site…

Electric bills to rise by at least 8% this month

Consumers will have to resort to energy-saving tips if they wish to reduce their electricity bills beginning this March 2022 as the National Power Corporation implements a 31 percent increase…

Surviving the things we cannot control

Last Tuesday, March 8, 2022, oil companies increased the prices of gasoline by ₱3.60 per liter, diesel by ₱5.85/l, and kerosene by ₱4.10/l. According to the Department of Energy (DOE),…

NPC to decommission its diesel power plants on or before April 1

With the National Power Corporation (NPC) finally pulling out of the Catanduanes grid on or before April 1, 2022, Sunwest Water & Electric Co. (SUWECO) has begun installing seven (7)…

Cong. Sanchez needs to support FICELCO’s bid to recover the Balongbong hydropower plant

With the impending departure of the National Power Corporation from the Catanduanes grid, there is now added impetus for Congressman Hector Sanchez to make good on his submarine power cable…

Engr. Raul V. Zafe | General Manager, FICELCO:

JOURNEY TOWARDS RECLAIMING BALONGBONG MINI HYDRO POWER PLANT

By this article, I wish to make it known to every Catandunganon the urgent need to unite for a cause that will have long-lasting benefits to our island province in…

FICELCO launches latest bid to reclaim Balongbong power plant

Three decades after the Balongbong Mini-Hydroelectric Power Plant was taken over by the National Power Corporation (NPC), the First Catanduanes Electric Cooperative, Inc. (FICELCO) is once again actively seeking the…

On giving back to those who helped us before

Last Monday morning, Dec. 27, 2021, a team of 17 personnel from the First Catanduanes Electric Cooperative, Inc. (FICELCO) on board a boom truck with man lift, a support truck…