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The Tagum-based Southern Mindanao branch office of the National Transmission Corporation has bared that the power supply it is delivering to Davao del Norte, Compostela Valley and Davao Oriental areas is enough and adequate for now.
“TransCo is in fact coming out a new and additional 100 megawatt volt ampere (MVA) sub-station at Maco, Compostela Valley for a reserved power load for Daneco and Doreco which cover the three provinces,” bared Engr. Edwino Maceren, chief of TransCo’s South Eastern Mindanao Area (SEMA)- North Davao branch, which is based in Barangay Canocotan, Tagum City.
TransCo’s 100 MVA sub-station in Maco will further augment the power load and transmission capacity for the provinces under the coverage of TransCo-SEMA-North Davao operations given the need to develop it along with power generation to keep pace with the increases of population and economic transactions, he said.
“There is need to worry of our power supply for now,” he added.
Currently, the TransCo-North Davao operations is directly delivering about 75 mega watts (MW) of power to Davao del Norte Electric Cooperative (Daneco), which consumes over 60 MW, Davao Oriental Electric Cooperative (Doreco), with over 10 MW, and to Apex Mines areas, with over 3 MW.
To energize these areas, TransCo-North Davao operation coursed through the power from TransCo’s backbone steel towers to existing 100-MVA Tindalo sub-station located at Mainit, Nabunturan, which services the mainland valley including the highland Maragusan, and Kapalong and Asuncion in Davao del Norte, and through the 100-MVA Maco sub-station, which services the rest Daneco’s Davao del Norte areas and Davao Oriental.
TransCo-North Davao operation transmits a 69-kilovolt power to its direct customers, the Daneco and Doreco as power franchisees and Apex Mines, which has long been directly tapping TransCo’s backbone towers.
Transco transmits its particular power supply from the Mindanao grid, the aggregate power supply generated by various power sources such as the land-based diesel plants, geothermal plants, hydro power plants and power barges such as the one in Maco town.
In Mindanao, it has six operation and maintenance services areas. Transco-SEMA- South Davao operation services Davao City and Davao del Sur.
Transco is a government-owned and controlled corporation created in 2001 by the Electric Power Industry Reform Act.
It assumed the National Power Corporation’s electrical transmission functions which include the planning, construction and centralized operation and maintenance of high-voltage transmission facilities, grid interconnections and ancillary services.
TransCo has been operating separately from NPC since March 1, 2003. It has a unique and crucial role of linking power plants owned by NPC and independent power producers (IPPs) to the country’s 123 distribution utilities and electric cooperatives which in turn deliver electricity to end-users. (Cha Monforte/Rural Urban News) http://ruralurbanews.blogspot.com
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