President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo ordered for all government agencies and government-owned and controlled corporations, to adopt electricity and fuel savings measures as soon as possible. The Department of Science and Technology and the Siquijor State College try the best to advocate energy conservation in Siquijor province following President GMA’s order for all.

An awareness training was conducted by the DOST, co-sponsored by the Siquijor State College and the provincial government of Siquijor. The primary goal is to develop the knowledge, awareness and capability of the staff involved in the energy management.  “Savings in Electricity” is the bottom line. This seminar should help to generate substantial saving of electricity in a short and long term. 

Dr. Cabanganan (the SSC President) stated, that energy is one of the problems in the province but many have not realized it and a lot of energy is not properly used and wasted. He cited some such as solar, wind, sea, ocean or tidal current of which combination of the principles of these energy resources can very well work in the province. “Wind in it self can be utilized to pump water instead of electricity,” he cited.

Giving his all-out support to the campaign, SSC President Dr. Dominador Q. Cabanganan said past and present efforts of the school has been in line with the energy conservation program of the government as he cited its proposal for the establishment of an Energy R & D Center in Siquijor which will cost some five million pesos, among their other undertakings.

As if echoing President Arroyo’s call, the College President also encouraged his staff to conserve by doing away with those unnecessary electrical appliances and do the same to encourage other officials and employees to conserve electricity and fuel. By next month, the President wants all government offices to implement plans to replace all incandescent lamps and by September, all agencies shall convert 20 percent of their vehicles in major cities to liquid petroleum.

“Agencies shall install and/ or adopt other energy saving technology, with the help of the Department of Energy and/or the Department of Science and Technology,” the AO stated.

“Developing our local capabilities is very timely and will keep us abreast with the current trends in energy management.”

“Considering our present situation of soaring energy costs particularly in the province of Siquijor and the climate change which we are experiencing, I am pretty sure that this training is both timely and relevant“ Engr. de la Peña said

“I hope that what you will learn in this training will benefit your respective offices in our quest for energy conservation measures” he said.

Conserving Energy is one of the biggest challenges of our time.. Let’s face this challenge and start doing something now. Siquijor is on the right way…

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