Friday, April 27, 2012

No power shortage in Negros Oriental

Sunstar Dumaguete
By Victor L. Camion
Friday, April 27, 2012
BOTH power producer and distributor issued an assurance that there will be no power shortage in Negros Oriental.
Energy Development Corporation (EDC) public relation officer Noreen Bautista told Sun.Star that they will continue to operate the power plants 24 hours, seven days a week.
EDC is a sister company of the Green Core Corporation owned by the Lopezes Group of Companies.
EDC is operating the geothermal energy while Green Core is operating the power plants formerly owned by the National Power Corporation (Napocor).
Meanwhile, a top official of the Negros Oriental Electric Cooperative II (Noreco II) said that aside from Green Core Corporation, they have a contract between the Cebu-based power producers Kepco.
Noreco II general manager Dionefred Macahig said in case Green Core will meet power shortage, Kepco can produce power that can be distributed to power subscribers.
Macahig issued an assurance following apprehension that Negros Oriental has experienced power shortage after the series of brownouts in the huge part of Noreco II’s area of jurisdiction.
He explained that the power interruption experienced by the Noreco II consumers is not due to power shortage but due to the problem met by the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP).
The transmission line of the NGCP in Amlan-Siaton connection was toppled down after a bamboo pole tumbled down the cooper wire causing the brownout.
An almost an hour brownout affected the residential and industrial consumers from Amlan, Sibulan, Dumaguete City, Bacong, Valencia, Dauin and Siaton.
Another round of brownout was experienced by Noreco II consumers in Dumaguete City on Wednesday afternoon.

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