THE Visayas region may yet be spared from a looming power crisis expected to hit the country in 2015 after a new 82-megawatt (MW) coal-fired power plant went on stream in Toledo City, Cebu.

Global Business Power Corp. (GBP) switched on last Friday the P10.2-billion expansion project of subsidiary Toledo Power Corp. (TPC) to augment supply from the firm’s existing 60-MW coal-fired and 40-MW diesel-fired plants serving the region.

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