By | Feb. 06, 2014 at 12:01am
Power retailer Manila Electric Co. filed an application with the Energy Regulatory Commission to implement an advanced distribution management system costing P382.86 million to replace the existing one it considers obsolete.
Meralco said the existing operating trouble management system, or OTMS, was commissioned in 1998 when it had less than three million customers.
It said the current 5.3 million customer base, supported by a complex distribution system, had outgrown the capacity of the OTMS.
Meralco said the OTMS played a critical role in managing outages in its franchise area. The OTMS was originally designed to accommodate a five-year growth in customers and its life has actually been extended for more than 10 years.
Meralco said the OTMS was now facing “major technical obsolescence with declarations of withdrawal from marketing and end-of-support by the vendors of its various components.”
It said that the absence of vendor support in case of a malfunction would cause disruption of the outage management process, leaving Meralco at risk in its commitment to deliver quality service to its customers.
The power distributor also said the OTMS was becoming more difficult and costly to enhance and given its obsolete platform, it could not interface with the other computer systems. source
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