Negros Oriental plant under repair in the Philippines
Alexander Richter
20 Feb 2009
A report from the Philippines, talks about repairs at Negros Oriental Electric Cooperative-1 (NORECO 1) and resulting power outages.
A report from the Philippines, talks about repairs at Negros Oriental Electric Cooperative-1 (NORECO 1) and resulting power outages.
The company “assured its consumers that power supply will be stabled after the completion of the maintenance works of Palinpinon 1 Geothermal Power Plant as most of the municipalities in the first district have experienced intermittent brownouts due to load shedding for the past few days. Load shedding is the voluntary reduction of load requirement by the electric cooperative which execute a power interruption or power rotation scheme during peak hours on its feeders.”
“However, he explained that electricity will still be so low and deficient because one unit of the Energy Development Corporation (EDC) at Malitbog, Leyte of 77 megawatt was under annual maintenance.
With its maintenance repair, Negros Oriental electric consumers will still be experiencing power interruption or low voltage. Malitbog Unit I project provides power to the National Power Corporation (NPC) for distribution to Negros Island via Cebu through the Leyte-Cebu transmission interconnection project.
Nochefranca of NORECO I lamented that Negros Island alone needs 217 megawatt as of last year against the capacity of 152 MW only generated from Palinpinon Geothermal as well as the electric consumers is also increasing but power supply is still the same against the demand of the power users.
The Palinpinon-1’s power lines serves Negros Oriental and were extended to Guimaras and Panay islands through submarine cables installed by NPC.”
