Congratulatilons to the Opeman MM class under Prof Gus Arguelles who did the 17th Forum on Energy

 Angono, Rizal, Philippines | March 26, 2014

                                   The Opeman Cluster Professors

Congratulations to the MM Opeman Class under Prof Gus Arguelles and the Opeman cluster under Prof Ralph Ante.  It was  well attended forum and the speakers were all distinguished:  Sec Jericho Petilla of DOE, his Executive Director Patrick Aquino, a senior Officer of ERC, an ADB expatriate and senior officers from Meralco.   I understand from Gus is that the forum is a true test of project management:   organization, process, timeline, resources, marketing,  My class in entrep conducted several fora on guest entrepreneurs who included Francis Kong and Vicky Belo.  We did the social entrep forum on the l50 year of Ateneo.

Prof Jorge with DOE Secretary Jericho Petilla at Empowering Juan forum of Opeman yesterday March 24, 20

                           Sec Jericho Petilla and Prof Jorge at the Opeman Empowering Juan Forum last night

Makati City, Philippines March 25, 2014

Several key personalities from ERC, DOE, from PCCI were the guest speakers at the Opeman Forum last night at the APS auditorium  One of them was no less than DOE Secretary Jericho Petilla, former governor   of Leyte.  He was simply engaging and very erudite about the power nd energy.

He answered well the query by a French MBA studentnwhy not go nuclear.  The over all impact would be only P0.20 kwh ( 600 megawatt capacity at P2.00/kwh) without considering the perils associaed with meltdown as in TIPPCO in Fukugshima Japan, (Japan is now going solar) and that our future energy sources shall be RE in combinationn with coal and other fossil fuel baseload.

He hinted that China is frustrating our vision for natural gas/energy self sufficiency