By The Manila Times on
April 20, 2018
State-firm National
Power Corp. (Napocor) on Wednesday inaugurated four 600-kilowatt (kW)
additional generating sets (gensets) for its power facilities in the towns of
San Vicente and El Nido in Palawan to respond to the latter’s growing power
demand.
“As premiere
destination among local and foreign tourists, there is a significant increase
in power demand in these areas every year,” said Pio Benavidez, Napocor
president and CEO.
For its San Vicente
Diesel Power Plant, Napocor said the two open-type gensets will bring the total
dependable capacity to 1940 kW enough to address the peak demand of 676 kW.
The El Nido Diesel
Power Plant, on the other hand, will now have 4,050 total dependable capacity,
sufficient to supply the 3,825 kW demand.
Both power plants
operate 24 hours, servicing about 4,500 families and 500 commercial
establishments.
San Vicente is becoming
popular for being home to the country’s longest white beach, Long Beach, that
straddles three barangay (villages).
Napocor is set to
deploy more gensets in its Small Power Utilities Group plants in Palawan as
part of its capacity addition program this year.
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