The government is looking at El Nido, one of Palawan’s prime tourist destinations, as a pilot project of National Power Corp.’s Small Power Utilities Group under a business franchising model.
The 2012-2016 Missionary Electrification Development Plan identified El Nido as one of the medium-term Napocor-SPUG areas, or those with a gross generation significantly higher than one gigawatt-hour.
The five-year 2012 MEDP outlines the government’s plans to improve the conditions prevailing in missionary areas. It is intended to serve as the blueprint on which missionary electrification policy actions in the next five years will be based and evolve.
Also included in the medium-term Napocor-SPUG areas (also called the Energy Department’s 15 second wave areas) to be opened for private sector participation are Rapu-Rapu, Tingloy, Taytay, San Vicente, Siasi, Lubang, Casiguran, Polilio, Cuyo, Basco, Roxas, Ticao, Dinagat and Kalamansig.
The MEDP said the areas of Casiguran, Polilio, Cuyo, Basco, Roxas, Ticao, Dinagat and Kalamansig had a strong demand profile, which means they are expected to be taken over by new power players or new investors in the same manner as large Napocor-SPUG areas.
It, however, said that due to their different nature, Napocor-SPUG will have to draw up a business model specific to Rapu-Rapu, Tingloy, Taytay, San Vicente, Siasi, Lubang and El Nido. source
(Published in the Manila Standard Today newspaper on /2012/May/24)
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