produce a total of 404 MW supply for the Panay and Guimaras islands. Power distribution had been facilitated by Panay Electric Company (PECO) since 1923 as one of the oldest private electricity distributor companies in the Philippines, but MORE Electric and Power Corporation (MORE Power) of the Spanish Filipino Billionaire Enrique K. Razon, has taken over PECO's operations and acts as the sole power distributor in Iloilo City. Metro Pacific Iloilo Water (MPIW), the metropolis' sole water distributor, has established a joint venture with Metro Pacific Water (MPW) and Metro Iloilo Water District (MIWD), to bolster the former's service of supplying potable water to the city and the whole Metro Iloilo. Education Being the center of education in Western Visayas Region, the city and the province of Iloilo has a total of ten major universities. Iloilo City alone hosts to 8 universities such as the Central Philippine University (CPU), University of the Philippines Visayas (UPV), which houses the University of the Philippines High School in Iloilo (UPHSI), University of San Agustin (USAI), West Visayas State University (WVSU), Iloilo Science and Technology University (formerly WVCST) (ISAT-U), University of Iloilo (UI), St. Paul University Iloilo (SPUI), and John B. Lacson Foundation Maritime University (JBLFMU). Three of the universities which are private in the city are founded by Christian religious orders and sects. Roman Catholics established the University of San Agustin (Spanish), St. Paul University Iloilo (American through their French confreres) and the Protestants who founded the Central Philippine University (American Baptist). Central Philippine University – The first and only Western Visayan university in the list of the top universities in Asia and the world for 2021 to 2023 by Quacquarelli Symonds, one of the two biggest world university ranking agencies after Times Higher Education, is the largest university in the metropolis with a population of nearly 15,000+ enrollees on its 24-hectare main campus in Jaro, Iloilo City. Formally founded in 1905 (but dates back its establishment in 1901 when CPU–Iloilo Mission Hospital, its university hospital, was opened by Presbyterian Protestant Americans) under the auspices of the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society through a grant given by the American industrialist and philanthropist, John D. Rockefeller, when the Americans brought their Protestant faith prior and after the Spanish–American War and the Treaty of Paris (1898) which ceded the bureaucracy of Philippines from Spain to the United States. The university is the first Baptist and