CEBU CITY – Inline with the governments enhancing energy efficiency program, the Department of Energy (DoE) is set to sign a memorandum of agreement with the Visayan Electric Company (VECO) before the end of this month for the distribution of 250,000 compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) here.

Allan Bacudo, DoE Science Research Specialist II of the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Division during the recent consultation on Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and Climate Change in this city said that the MOA will task the VECO to take charge in distributing the CFLs to household residents.

Under the MOA, the VECO will identify the distribution center where household residents will exchange their incandescent bulbs (IB) for CFLs, as part of Government’s initiative to save energy consumption.

“After VECO identifies its distribution center, household residents can then exchange up to a maximum of six IBs for six CFLs provided that the IBs are not broken and in good condition,” he said.

Bacudo disclosed that household residents of this city will be the first recipients of the CFL distribution, while others cities will immediately follow.

Meanwhile, the Switch to Efficient Lighting' project of the DOE which is highlighted with the use of CFLs is the DOE's tagline in its aim to hit the 13 million CFLs target distribution in the country that will run until end of next year or early 2011.

Further, the distribution of the 13 million CFLs is divided into three lots where the first lot is expected to distribute 5 million CFLs to replace IBs in households in four identified power distribution utilities' areas namely MERALCO for Metro Manila, Davao Light for Davao City, CEPALCO for Cagayan de Oro and VECO of this city.

Of the 5 million CFLs which will be distributed in a span of three months, Metro Manila garnered the highest number with 4.45M CFLs for distribution followed by Cebu City household residents with 250,000 CFLs, Davao City with 200,000 CFLs and Cagayan de Oro with 100,000 CFLs.