Mount Apo owner contract arrangement. Located in Barangay Ilomavis, Kidapawan City, North Cotabato is the "Mindanao Geothermal Production Field" with a power output of 108.48 MW, currently the only power plant of its kind in Mindanao. The Philippine National Oil Company geothermal plant supplies electricity to Kidapawan and its neighboring provinces, its completion boosted the city's economy. The Tudaya Hydropower Plants, located near the foot of Mount Apo on the Davao side (Sta. Cruz, Davao del Sur), is composed of two run-of-river type plants that will contribute to the energy needs of Mindanao by early 2014. The Sibulan Hydroelectric Power Plants have
Apo-eup Unified Silla in 757, when it made up two "myeon" in Gaeryeong-hyeon: Dong-myeon and Apo-myeon. This situation continued for more than a thousand years, until the massive reorganization of Korea's local governments in 1914, at which time the two "myeon" were united into the present-day entity of Apo-eup. Apo-eup was originally part of Gimcheon County; when the county was split into Gimcheon City and Geumneung County in 1949, it became part of Geumneung County. With the reunification of city and county in 1995, Apo-eup became part of Gimcheon once more. Apo-eup is located near the heart of the national transportation