July 5, 2024
The Energy Development Corp. (EDC) inaugurated its 28.9-megawatt (MW) Palayan Binary Geothermal Power Plant in Manito, Albay. Amid the country’s growing power demand, the P7-billion power plant provides much-needed support to the energy sector. It harnesses the thermal energy of brine, a by-product from EDC’s 120-MW Palayan Bayan 1 flash geothermal power plant, to generate electricity without the need for additional steam. Part of the expansion of the existing 140-MW Bacon-Manito facility, it is connected to the power highway and synchronized with the Luzon grid. The project is one of EDC’s contributions to the country’s baseload target for renewable energy, in line with the Department of Energy’s goal of expanding renewable energy use.
July 9, 1975
The “Bantayog sa Kiangan” in Linda, Kiangan, was declared a military shrine by virtue of Proclamation No. 1460, approved by then President Ferdinand Marcos Sr. The last fierce battles fought between the Japanese and the American forces took place in Kiangan. The shrine marks the site where the “Tiger of Malaya,” Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita, the highest commander of the Japanese Imperial Army in the Philippines, surrendered to the Filipino American forces on Sept. 2, 1945. Officially known as “Kiangan War Memorial Shrine,” the gigantic steel and concrete structure was built in 1974 to commemorate the end of the World War II in the Philippines.
