Inside the classroom building of New Society Central Resource Center at Lanton Elem.
m. School Resource Center at Lanton Elem. School Fee
Elem. School and its students (insets on left)
Feeding Program
JCN with the Board of Directors and officials of PSI with
the principal of New Society Central Elem. School
Renovated building of GSC Elementary School for the Arts
Peakpower Soccsargen Inc. (PSI) launched the Build-
and-Brighten-A-School Project by forging an agreement
with the Department of Education to support Republic
Act 8525, or the Adopt-a-School Program, a program
encouraging private companies to assist in the delivery
of better quality education to public schools, particularly
in the poverty-stricken provinces in the country.
PSI, an affiliate of Palm Concepcion Power Corporation,
is the owner of the 34.8-megawatt bunker-fired
power plant in Barangay Apopong, General Santos City.
PSI provides the power requirement of South Cotabato II
Electric Cooperative, Inc. (SOCOTECO II) during peak
hours and when there is power curtailment in SOCOTECO II
franchise area.
In this project, PSI identified three public elementary schools
in the host barangay as its beneficiary. These are: GSC
Elementary School for the Arts, Lanton Elementary
School and New Society Central Elementary School.
The project includes the improvement of the electrical
connection, construction or renovation of identified
facilities in each school, and a continuous feeding program for
two months.
Building for children with special needs at New Societ
eding Center at GSC Elem. School for the Arts Reading Center at GSC Elem. School for the Arts Mr. Jacinto Ng Jr. (JCN), PSI Advisor with a student, a teacher,
and the principal of New Society Central Elem. School

GSC Elementary School for the Arts

PSI renovated the computer room, feeding center, guidance
office, administration and principal’s office of GSC
Elementary School for the Arts. A reading center was Turnover Ceremony at Lanton Elem. School
also constructed adjacent to the computer room area. A
complete set of classroom and office furniture were also
donated.
Lanton Elementary School
In this second school, PSI constructed a one-level Learning
Resource Center, which also serves as an audio-visual facility
and training center for both students and teachers. The
facility was turned over complete with audio-visual equipment
and classroom furniture.
New Society Central Elementary School
Meanwhile, PSI put up a two-level classroom building for Turnover Ceremony at GSC Elem. School for the Arts with
children with special needs for New Society Central General Santos City Mayor Ronnel Rivera (third from right)

Elementary School. The building included tables, chairs,

air conditioner units, and a braille equipment with learning
materials for the blind.
The Build-and-Brighten-a-School Projects started on
November 2017 and the turnover ceremonies for the three
schools were held on July 5, 2018.

ty Central Elementary School Learning Resource Center at Lanton Elementary School

NEDA VI SUPPORTS ADOPT-A-MOUNTAIN PROJECT
As a support to the Enhanced National Greening Program (ENGP) of the
Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), the National
Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) Region VI collaborated with
PCPC for a tree planting activity held on October 5, 2018.
With 34 participants, around 250 seedlings were planted at the back of
PCPC’s power plant, which is part of PCPC’s Adopt-A-Mountain Project. The
tree planting was then followed by a plant tour for the NEDA employees
led by Regional Director Ro-Ann Bacal.
DENR’s ENGP covers the remaining denuded and degraded forestlands in
the country, which includes the forest area of Concepcion, Iloilo, the host
municipality of the PCPC power plant.
“Our concerted effort will reflect positively the genuine concern of the
government and the private sector in preserving the environment, as
well as, adhere to our social responsibility,” Director Bacal said.

ENVI corner
MMT CONDUCTS Q4 ENVI TESTING
PCPC and the Multipartite Monitoring Team (MMT) conducted the
Environmental Testing on November 22-23, 2018 which serves as the 4th and
last quarter testing for the year 2018.

The quarterly conduct of the ambient air quality and noise monitoring were
conducted in all the four (4) established stations. In addition, the ambient
water quality monitoring for freshwater, groundwater, and marine water were
also included. The conduct for the marine water module is also divided into
Circulating Water Intake, effluent or liquid waste, and other pollution point
source inventory.

MMT is an independent entity assisting the DENR in monitoring

environmental impacts and compliance.
Photos: (Above) The ladies of MMT collecting water samples. (Below) Heavy metal in air
analyzer (left), particulate matter sampler (middle), and the total suspended particulate
matter sampler (right).
 In observance of the International Coastal
Clean Up, PCPC’s Corporate Affairs Group
and the Environment, Health and Safety
Department led a clean up activity on
September 22, 2018.
Despite being held on a weekend, a troop
of more than a hundred volunteers participated
in cleaning up two different areas in the
community--Lilintian Creek and the Coastal Area
of Brgy. Nipa proper.
The group was able to gather a total of 342.45 kilos of
trash comprised of plastic (174.95kl), plastic
bottles (65.2kl), styrofoam (12.5kl), fabrics (41.5kl)
cans (8.8kl), and rubber (39.5kl).

Simulators installed at plant site
Installed inside the power plant
facility are the Working at Height
and Hoist or Weight Training
Simulators.
The simulators are being used to
train plant personnel with proper
safety procedures on the two work
aspects commonly encountered
in the operation of the plant and
also during the orientation of new
personnel.
The simulation exercise is
spearheaded by the Environment,
Health, and Safety (EHS) Team.
They do this on a regular basis for
the operations and maintenance
workers.
Plant Availability
(January-December 2018)
The table shows the
factor of the average
operating hours or
plant availability of the
PCPC power plant from
January - December 2018.
For the month of August
and September, the
Preventive Maintenance
Schedule commenced on
August 17 and concluded
on September 13.
Routine for safety FPS weekly inspection
A weekly safety orientation is Aside from ensuring the
being held every Monday by the workers and the plant’s safety,
safety officers of both PCPC and the PCPC EHS personnel also conduct
plant’s Operation and Maintenance regular inspection of the
operator for the workers in the different facilities of the power
power plant. plant.
Also known as the “toolbox
meeting,” the said orientation One of the facilities that is
aims to review observations of any regularly monitored is the Fire
unsafe act or condition from the Protection System (FPS) to ensure
previous week, afterwhich they that it is fully operational. Fire
discuss ways to avoid them. pumps and deluge valves are
“In this weekly meeting, we are being tested every week, while
reiterating all safety precautions fire alarms and portable fire
and highlighting the necessary extinguishers are also examined
procedures on working at heights, weekly. Also, a bi-monthly
hot works and housekeeping inspection and testing for the
which is the usual routine in the standby generator set are
power plant,” Jan Felix Balquin, being conducted.
EHS Specialist said.

PCPC ENABLES QUICK RESPONSE GROUP
A 2-day training course, carried out by
PCPC’s partners from the Philippine
Red Cross Iloilo Chapter, followed the
series of trainings under the
Disaster Emergency Response Program
(DERP) of PCPC, wherein volunteers
from the host community were
organized to form a response
CSR corner
group.
The Occupational First Aid
Training (OFAT), which was held
on October 13-14, 2018, served
as the basis to form the new
Quick Response Team (QRT)
whose members are all volunteer
residents from Barangay Nipa.
“We intend to further strengthen the Quick Response Team to function not only during times of emergency, but also to be a core
group actively participating in various projects and events of the community,” Dan G. Baliao, Community Relations Assistant said.
Capacity Building
Health MISTING IN COMMUNITY AIMED AT
PREVENTING DENGUE CASES
In partnership with Leads Environmental
Health Products, the “Iwas-Dengue
Awareness Program” was held on
September 6-7, 2018 in Sitio Puntales,
Brgy. Nipa, Concepcion, Iloilo.
With the objective to prevent and control
dengue cases in the barangay, the
orientation workshop was supported
by more than fifty (50) households in
the area while close to 100 households
were the identified beneficiaries of the
misting* activity.
(*Misting is one of the methods used in
eradicating pests such as mosquitoes that
are hiding in the surroundings.)
Representatives from the Municipal
Health Office headed by Dr. Bea Camille
Filaro, supported the said activity
through their attendance and
supervision.
Capacity Building
BACKYARD PIGGERY SEMINAR HELD
Bringing a livelihood opportunity to residents
of Brgy. Nipa, PCPC, in partnership
with LEADS Agricultural Products conducted
a Swine Raising Seminar on November 13, 2018.
The seminar aims to inform interested swine
raisers and would-be swine producers the
appropriate technology that they can apply in
order to realize better production and profit.
Identified residents by the Barangay Council
were given Swine Starter Kits to establish their
own livelihood and after they have earned from
the first batch of swines, they will be the ones
to give out swine starter kits to other interested
residents.
Concepcion, Iloilo--PCPC held on its second year a gift-giving
activity called “Pamaskwa nga Halad sang PCPC” (Ilonggo phrase
for Pamaskong Handog ng PCPC).
The company shared grocery packs, school supplies, and toys through a
Christmas program, where games and entertainment delighted the
participants.
The activity, which was held on December 12, 2018, benefitted 100
indigent children and their families from the power plant’s host community.
Just like the previous year, the activity was made successful through the
generosity of PCPC’s board of directors, partners, and employees
through their participation to the “Bingo for a Cause,” a fundraising
activity of the company.

Left: The children of Barangay

Nipa gave their best wacky shots
with the famous fastfood joint’s
mascots together with PCPC
employees.