More Electric and Power Corporation (MORE Power) continues to modernize its power distribution system in Iloilo City as it invests an additional P1.1 billion. This brings the company’s total investment for 2022-2025 to P3 billion.
This was announced by MORE Power President and Chief
Operating Officer Roel Z. Castro. He also shared that the power firm has
initially invested an emergency capital expenditure of Php 1.9 billion when it
started its operations in 2020.
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| MORE Power President and Chief Operating Officer Roel Z. Castro (in white) with the engineers. |
MORE Power spent the initial funding on the rehabilitation of the dilapidated facilities that were inherited from previous distribution utility, and the improvement of its customer service. These include the reconditioning and rehabilitation of power transformers of the five substations, replacement of dilapidated posts and electrical wires, additional distribution transformers, and replacement of damaged electric meters.
To lessen the power load of the Mandurriao substation, MORE
Power acquired and installed a 10 mega-volt ampere (MVA) mobile substation
within the Megaworld property. The power utility also added automatic circuit
reclosers (ACRs) and other protection system in the electricity distribution
network.
These improvements have resulted to lower incidence of
unscheduled power interruptions and faster restoration during outages.
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| MORE Power switching station in Banuyao, Lapaz. |
One of the major infrastructures put up by MORE Power is the switching station in Banuyao, Lapaz, which connected its facilities to the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP). The move resulted in lower electricity rates as it enables the company to source a much cheaper supply from power generators and the spot market.
MORE Power has intensified its “Oplan Valeria”
anti-pilferage campaign, prompting those with electricity theft to apply for
legal connections. The efforts resulted in a lower system loss of only 7.8%,
from as high as 28%. Also, the number of legitimate consumers increased from
64,000 to over 86,000 in their two years of operation.
Castro said that the additional Php 1.1 billion pesos will
be earmarked for more modernization efforts in the next three years.
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| MORE Power’s 10MVA mobile substation at Megaworld township. |
The distribution utility plans to put up three more substations to prepare for the increasing power demand of the metropolis. These will be installed in Megaworld and Arevalo areas, and the third one will be a mobile substation which will be used during repairs and rehabilitation of existing substations.
MORE Power will also shift to a loop distribution system by
connecting all substations and feeders, with Supervisory Control and Data
Acquisition (SCADA) systems for digital monitoring of the entire facility.
These modernization efforts will make MORE Power’s
distribution system more reliable, stable, and efficient, which will encourage
investments that spur progress in Iloilo City.
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