GENERAL SANTOS CITY (07 August 2013) - No brownout in GenSan is possible.
These were the words of South Cotabato II Electric Cooperative (SOCOTECO II) general manager Rodolfo Ocat as he met for the third time with City Mayor Ronnnel Rivera to brief him on the current status of the power scenario in the city.
“Through the precedence of Mayor Rivera towards sustainable power supply, we can ploy projects that can realize such goal (no brownouts),” Ocat said.
Engr. Ocat also added that despite reports by the National Power Corporation (NPC) that Mindanao is currently experiencing a 90MW energy shortage because of ongoing preventive maintenance work in one of NPC’s coal plants, generally the city will be spared from large scale brownouts.
To compensate for the inadequacy in power supply, both Mapalad Power Corporation and Therma Marine Inc. provide 30MW of energy which is part of their contract with SOCOTECO II.
In addition, last May, SOCOTECO II also signed a deal with Miami-based energy provider SOEnergy International to augment power supply in the city in case of shortages.
Costing for the additional power supplied by SOEnergy will be determined by the hours it will be utilized.
Apparently, the estimated price is around P4.35 kw/H and succeeding rates will apply depending on the length of usage of the additional energy.
Aside from the availed power from SOEnergy, SOCOTECO II and the local government also agreed to avail of non-firm power supply, implementation of Interruptible Load Program (ILP) and the advocating of practical energy conservation efforts.
Rivera lauded the moves taken by SOCOTECO II saying that this type of foresight in the management of power supply is needed to boost the economic confidence in the city. (GENSAN INFO OFFICE/Ian John M. Lagare)
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