MINDANAO DAILY T H E P U RV E YO R O F T R U T H , J U S T I C E , A N D D E V E LO P M E N T
Volume VI, No. 125
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October 28, 2016
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Microsoft to update Windows operating system, enabling 3-D features Microsoft Corporation announced a plan on Wednesday to update its Windows 10 operating system, enabling 3-D features on personal computers (PC). The update, called Creators Update, to the Windows 10, which is Microsoft’s latest software platform for applications to operate, is expected to be available to more than 400 million devices early next year. Microsoft, a technology company based in Redmond, Washington state, of the US Pacific Northwest, said the update will help create, share and experience in 3-D and mixed reality and make Microsoft Edge the first web browser to fully embrace 3-D. In addition, it said Microsoft Office suite, a set of productivity applications including PowerPoint presentation tool, will support 3-D features.
CHEAP POWER RATES? Homes like this one in Lubilan, Naawan, Misamis Oriental can enjoy the benefits of cheap electricity if Mindanao’s hydropower plants were exclusively used for households. Photo courtesy of Elmer Velasco Sayre
Lower electricity rates for households possible See update, page A7
Pulangi Dam
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
THE Pulangi IV Hydroelectric Power Plant, also known as the Pulangi Dam, is located on the Pulangi River near Maramag in Bukidnon province on the island of Mindanao in the Philippines. It uses two reservoirs, produced by damming the Pulangi River, to supply water to a run-of-the-river hydroelectric power plant; the power plant is capable of generating 255 megawatts (342,000 hp) of power. Construction began in 1982; the first two generators became operational in December 1985, See dam, page A6
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By MIKE BAÑOS, Editor at large
LECTRICITY rates for residential households in Mindanao can be reduced by as much as P2.25 per kilowatt hour if the output of the AgusPulangi hydroelectric power complex is exclusively allocated for residential consumers. “Upon unbundling of the PSALM charges for generation (MCPC will work on this in 2017), the rates for the hydro will be reduced to the true generation rates of 2.00 pesos per kWh,” said Engr. David A. Tauli,
president of the Mindanao Coalition of Power Consumers (MCPC). “Residential consumers in Mindanao will get a reduction of 2.20 pesos per kWh compared to what they are paying now.” See CHEAP, page A6
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