{"id":27950,"date":"2014-10-05T19:11:09","date_gmt":"2014-10-05T11:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=27950"},"modified":"2014-10-05T19:11:09","modified_gmt":"2014-10-05T11:11:09","slug":"senate-to-approve-aquinos-special-powers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/10\/05\/senate-to-approve-aquinos-special-powers\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate to approve Aquino\u2019s special powers"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_14586\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14586\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Senate-Philippines-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14586\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Senate-Philippines-1-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Senate of the Philippines. 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Wikipedia photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 To grant President Aquino\u2019s emergency powers in addressing the looming power crisis next year, the senate is expected to approve the joint resolution this month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will work to finish this before the end of October so that the President would be given the power and the DOE (Department of Energy) could buy or rent the generating sets to provide the necessary power supply from March to July of next year,\u201d said Senate President Franklin Drilon.<\/p>\n<p>He also added that the approval would entail a lot of funds from the government while sharing his reservation on the proposal.<\/p>\n<p>A joint resolution working on the approval of Aquino\u2019s emergency powers is lead by Sen. Sergio Osmena III, head of the Senate committee on energy.<\/p>\n<p>Drilon pointed out that granting the President\u2019s emergency powers would cover for the shortfall of 300 megawatts in March and April adding that the estimates of the Department of Energy reached a total shortfall as high as 800 MW.<\/p>\n<p>The senator also added that they are expecting to help reduce the shortfall by generating more resources from the Malaya geothermal plant in Rizal and other businesses who committed to help through the interruptible load program (ILP).<\/p>\n<p>The ILP will seek the help of private companies, big commercial establishments such as malls to have their generator sets operated at certain periods.<\/p>\n<p>This step is to lower the demand of electricity on distributors including the Manila Electric Co.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the positive response from the Senate, Drilon, however, is not convinced with the proposal of the DOE, particularly on the need to purchase or lease generator sets.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Osme\u00f1a said that the government must trust the representatives of big businesses who earlier pledged their commitment to the ILP.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSecretary Petilla has been saying \u2018I don\u2019t believe them.\u2019 But there are certain times that you must take people\u2019s word for it; that they won\u2019t suck up a huge chunk of power from Meralco,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 To grant President Aquino\u2019s emergency powers in addressing the looming power crisis next year, the senate is expected &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":14586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[3251],"class_list":["post-27950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","tag-senate","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}