121 electric coops asked to meet connection target

By Alena Mae S. Flores – December 19, 2023, 6:30 pm
from manilastandard.net

State-run National Electrification Administration (NEA) asked 121 electric cooperatives (ECs) in the country to comply with the 2024 to 2028 projected number of potential consumer connections in pursuit of its accelerated total electrification plan.

NEA administrator Antonio Mariano Almeda signed a memorandum dated Dec. 12, 2023, encouraging the ECs to harmonize their targets and monitor accomplishments in line with the Local Total Electrification Roadmap and the Distribution Development Plan.

The agency seeks to increase potential consumer connections under EC service areas nationwide by 1,359,610  under the 2028 Total Electrification Plan.

This was based on calculated data from the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) and application of linear programming.

NEA said the detailed projections for each power co-op using the Connections Data Entry Template (DET) will be uploaded on the NEA-Business Intelligence Technology portal and the Barangay Energization Matrix (BEM) by January 2024.

It said in a separate memo dated Dec. 15, 2023 the BEM template was improved to streamline the Connections DET, identify electrification solutions to energize each barangay and find those with low level of electrification for possible prioritization and funding allocation, among others.

There are at least 16,281,177 potential consumer connections under the franchise areas of ECs, according to the October 2023 Status of Energization report of the agency, based on the 2020 PSA census.