NGCP completes Ormoc power line

By Alena Mae S. Flores – January 18, 2019 at 08:00 pm
from manilastandard.net

National Grid Corp. of the Philippines has completed the P697.6-million Line 2 of the Ormoc-Babatngon 138-kiloVolt (kV) transmission line, delivering its commitment to improve the transmission of electricity in the Eastern Visayas region before the end of 2018.

National Grid, operator of the country’s transmission network, said in a statement that Line 2 of Ormoc-Babatngon 138kV line was successfully energized in December, reinforcing power transmission delivery in the Leyte and Samar provinces.

“With the energization of the second circuit, transmission services in the area will now become more reliable and prolonged power interruptions will be minimized or avoided altogether,” said NGCP.

Before the second circuit was energized, the line was originally only a single circuit and outages along the line, planned or unplanned, result in a loss of power for the all the Samar provinces, which rely heavily on power supply from other islands.