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On July 4, 2022, House of Representatives Secretary-General Mark Llandro Mendoza announced that it was expected that 315 members and 24 senators would attend the event, a total of 339 people. Mendoza also announced that the number of media to be allowed into the Batasang Pambansa would be limited. [ 11 ]
The National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) is the transmission system operator for three grids constituting the Philippine grid and as a franchise holder and transmission service provider, it is in charge of operating, maintaining, and developing the country's power grid, [27] controls the supply and demand of power by determining ...
"The President shall from time to time give to the Congress information on the state of the Nation, and recommend to its consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient." [2] The first formal State of the Nation Address was delivered by President Manuel L. Quezon on June 16, 1936 at the Legislative Building in Manila. [2]
The Philippines also generates a significant amount of electrical energy from oil, albeit to a lesser degree than compared to coal and natural gas. In 2013, the Philippines sourced 5.97% of its energy from oil-based sources. [7] As of March 2016, there were a total of 212 gas and diesel-powered facilities in the Philippines.
TransCo was a unit of another government-owned corporation National Power Corporation (NAPOCOR/NPC), with the latter operated, maintained and owned the country's power grid during that time, before the transfer of the grid to the former on March 1, 2003, where TransCo then operated, maintained, constructed, expanded, and made eminent domain to ...
Under a regime of martial law, President Ferdinand Marcos in July 1973 announced the decision to build a nuclear power plant. This was in response to the 1973 oil crisis, as the Middle East oil embargo had put a heavy strain on the Philippine economy, and Marcos believed nuclear power to be the solution to meeting the country's energy demands and decreasing dependence on imported oil.
July 7 – Five restaurants from the Philippines are included in the Top Restaurants in Asia 2022 list of Opinionated About Dining (OAD), a global ranking system. [334] July 13 – Boracay is included among the "World's 50 Greatest Places in 2022" by TIME Magazine. [335] [336] [337] July 16:
At the time of the incident, Cebu Pacific and Philippine Airlines both cited a power outage at the ATMC as the cause for the suspension of flights. [1] At 1:54 p.m., MIAA released a press statement stating that all flights to and from Manila were put on hold and that the authority's crisis management and emergency response teams were activated ...