By Danessa Rivera (The
Philippine Star) | Updated March 23, 2017 - 12:00am
MANILA, Philippines - Off-grid power
producer DMCI Power Corp. (DPC) recorded double-digit sales growth in 2016 on
the back of increased electricity demand and capacity during the period.
The company said sales volume
reached 240 gigawatt-hours (gwh) last year, up 14 percent from 212 gwh the
previous year.
DPC attributed the growth to higher
power demand and dispatch across all cooperatives covered by the power
producer.
“We are pleased to serve the growing
electricity demand in our service areas. With our continued partnership with
local cooperatives, we can deliver reliable electricity to even more off-grid
communities,” DPC president Nestor Dadivas said in a statement.
DPC has long-term power supply
agreements with Palawan Electric Cooperative (Paleco), Oriental Mindoro
Electric Cooperative (Ormeco) and Masbate Electric Cooperative (Maselco).
In particular, Palawan registered
the highest sales growth at 17 percent from 78 gwh to 91.27 gwh due to the
increased economic activity in the province and the installation of a satellite
plant in Brooke’s Point.
Power sales to Ormeco grew 11
percent from 46.24 gwh to 51.76 gwh due mainly to the full year operations of
DPC’s 15-megawatt bunker-fired diesel power plant in Calapan City.
Meanwhile, dispatch to Maselco
advanced 11 percent from 85.81 gwh to 94.91 gwh, following a five percent
uptick in the cooperative’s line connections.
In the past six years, DPC has
invested P3.5 billion worth of power projects in missionary areas, covering
four small-scale diesel and bunker-fired facilities in Masbate (July 2010),
Palawan (December 2012), Oriental Mindoro (2016) and Sultan Kudarat (2016).
It was scheduled to commercially
operate a P620-million, 2x4.95-MW bunker-fired power plant in Aborlan, Palawan
by end-2016.
Later this year, the company is
switching on its P900-million 3x6.3-MW bunker-fired power plant in Irawan,
Puerto Princesa.
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