By
Lenie Lectura - November 6, 2017
JINAN, China—As the
foreign partner of the National Grid Corp. of the Philippines (NGCP), State
Grid Corp. of China (SGCC) made good on its promise to assist the Philippine
grid operator with procedural technology systems by way of technology transfer.
NGCP sent here 26 engineers
and other technical personnel to participate in a comprehensive learning
program with topics ranging from quality and safety, high-voltage direct
current technology, smart substations, protection systems and online monitoring
systems.
The NGCP said sending
its personnel is part of its thrust “to build the strongest power grid and
maintain the best power-utility practice in Southeast Asia”.
This is the third
program, called “Trailblazers,” conducted by NGCP with program partner SGCC and
the second for this year.
Trainers and technical
experts share best practices to NGCP personnel who are tasked to run the
Philippines’s power-transmission network. Aside from classroom lectures, the
personnel will also be toured to different SGCC facilities. Upon the completion
of the program, NGCP participants are expected to adopt the best practices as
they run the transmission grid in the Philippines.
The NGCP is a privately
owned company in charge of operating, maintaining and developing the country’s
power grid led by majority shareholders Henry Sy Jr. and Robert Coyiuto
Jr. It is 40-percent owned by SGCC, an electric-utilities firm owned by
the Communist-led Government of the People’s Republic of China.
The partnership between
NGCP and SGCC started in 2007 when the latter joined a Chinese-Philippine
consortium and won the bid for a 25-year franchise to operate the Philippine
national transmission network. The franchise was granted by Philippine Congress
in 2008.
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