The Freedom from Debt Coalition Visayas Chapters will spearhead the Visayas Multi-Stakeholders Power Summit today from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Grand Ballroom of the Cebu Business Hotel, Colon, Cebu City, a press release from the group said.

The summit aims to strengthen different Visayas-based non-government organizations, electric cooperatives, labor groups, people’s organizations and local government units into action against the privatization of the Unified Leyte Geothermal Plant in Tongonan, Leyte, the press release said.

The ULGP, which has a 1,958 MW installed capacity accounting for almost 13 percent of the country’s energy mix, is the single biggest source of electricity that powers the Visayas grid and reportedly the second biggest source of geothermal power in the world, it said.

Among the other issues to be tackled are the power situationer in Visayas, the power privatization efforts of the government as well as alternatives to the Electric Power Industry Reform Act of 2001, the press release also said.

Expected speakers include DOE Secretary Jericho Petilla, Alliance of Visayas Electric Cooperatives Manuel Sano and FDC national vice president Manjette Lopez.*

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