TABUK CITY—The National Grid Corporation of the Philippines will install a 100MVA sub-station in Tuguegarao City, Cagayan to boost the capacity of its existing 40MVA substation and meet increasing power requirements of the Northern Luzon Agri-business Growth Quadrangle, a flagship project of the Aquino administration.
Lilibeth Gaydowen, NGCP regional corporate communications and public affairs office, said the upgrade would benefit businesses in urban centers in the Ilocos, Cordilleras and Cagayan Valley regions.
“To generate high voltage electricity for transmission to distributing utilities, there is a need to have a ready supply of power and to avoid unnecessary power interruption in cases of overloading, NGCP has to further capacitate its power transmission system in the archipelago,” Gaydowen told Manila Standard.
As of 2010, NGCP operates and maintain 19,575 circuit-kilometers of transmission lines and 25,842 megavolt amperes of substation capacity.
“NGCP North Luzon operates and maintains 410 circuit-kilometers transmission lines,” Gaydowen said.
She said the 40MVA sub-station in Tuguegarao served provinces of Cagayan, Apayao and Kalinga.
“We have to face reality that electricity demand is rapidly growing because of the increase in households and the rapid expansion of industries and businesses even in remote communities, thus, the need for NGCP to also increase the load capacity of its transmission lines and sub-stations in order to cope up with the situation,” she said.
(Published in the Manila Standard Today newspaper on /2012/June/13) source
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