Power firm Colight expansion sought
COTABATO CITY — The provincial government of Maguindanao del Norte pushed for a Cotabato-based power utility firm to expand services to the province to sustain its improving business climate.
Gov. Abdulraof A. Macacua told reporters last Monday that he and provincial planners are together working out the possible expansion of the operation of the Cotabato Light and Power Co. (Colight) in the province.
Colight is owned by the Aboitiz Co. that also operates the Davao Light and Power Co. covering Davao City and all of its districts around.
The Bangsamoro Business Council, or BBC, supported the effort of the Maguindanao del Norte governor’s office.
“Adequate supply of electricity in areas where local and foreign investors can put up viable businesses is very important,” the entrepreneur-lawyer Ronald Hallid D. Torres, chairman of BBC, said on Tuesday. — John Felix M. Unson