Posted by Alena Mae S. Flores
National Grid Corporation of the Philippines on Wednesday said it upgraded for P28.5 million its Overall Disaster Command Center in time for the wet season.
The hub oversees and coordinates regional command centers all power restoration efforts during times of emergency.
It monitors the operational status of transmission lines and substations and manages procedures to cope with typhoons, heavy rain, floods, landslides, tornadoes, fires, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and tsunami.
Also refurbished was the National Control Center for power dispatch and monitoring.
National Grid president Henry Sy Jr., also chief executive, said the upgrade is meant to speed up restoration during times of interruption and outages due to weather conditions.
“This is part of NGCP’s Integrated Disaster Action Plan, which aims to protect not just power transmission facilities such as lines, posts and towers physically exposed to calamities, but also the lives of our employees and the people living near our facilities,” he said.
Simultaneous scale-ups were done in Luzon, the Visayas and Mindanao Regional Control Centers.
“We have also upgraded our communications equipment to complement the speedy monitoring and response to grid operations,” Sy said.
The national control center dispatches all generation facilities and loads directly or indirectly connected to the transmission system on a schedule submitted by the Market Operator, following rules of the Wholesale Electricity Spot Market, Grid Code, and the Energy Regulatory Commission. source
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