The National Transmission Corporation (TransCo) announced that it delivered a total of 28,108.4 MegaWatt-months (MW-months) of power to the country’s major electricity grids in the first three months of 2008 – a 4.8% increase over the year-ago level of 26,829.2 MW-months.
Power delivery, measured in MW-months, refers to the sum of TransCo’s monthly billing demands to its customers.
TransCo’s Corporate Planning Group reported that power delivered to the Luzon grid reached 20,924.7 MW-months from 2007’s level of 20,041.3 MW-months.
Delivery to the Visayas and Mindanao grids also went up this year, 6.0% and 5.7% respectively.
With the forthcoming privatization of the transmission grid, TransCo expects to maintain efficient operations, improve system security, and expand the high-voltage power highways to keep up with the ever growing power demands of customers.
In the Luzon grid, Meralco’s demand for power delivery service increased by 5.5% or 800.9 MW-months when compared with the 2007 level. Meralco is TransCo’s biggest customer accounting for 74% of TransCo’s total delivery in Luzon. Sixty-three percent of power delivery billed to Meralco was for NPC and its IPPs’ supply while the remaining 37% was from the three Meralco IPPs.
The NPC-generated power wheeled by TransCo to Meralco went up by 10.3% or by 915.2 MW-months compared with the 2007 level.
In the case of non-utility customers, power delivery service requirements went up slightly by less than one percent from the 2007 level of 780.4 MW-months. The minimal growth was due to lower than expected demands from TransCo’s major customers in the steel and chemical industries, among others.
In the Visayas grid, TransCo delivered 3,125.1 MW-months of power, up by 6.0% over the year-ago level.
The power delivery growth is attributed to higher demand of DUs particularly Central Negros Electric Cooperative (CENECO) and Panay Electric Company (PECO) which registered increases of 25.3 MW-months and 58.9 MW-months, respectively.
New customer SC Global Coco Products also contributed additional load of 2.3 MW-months.
In the Mindanao grid, power delivery also rose 5.7% to 4,058.7 MW-months due to the increase in the demands of DUs and industrial customers.
Electricity wheeled to DUs grew by 4.4% or by 137.2 MW-months. Power delivered to industrial customers increased by 11.4% or by 81.9 MW-months.
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