Capiz dads want Capelco to explain brownouts
ROXAS CITY — Worried about the worsening situation and economic condition brought about by frequent brownouts in the city and 16 municipalities of Capiz, both city council and Capiz provincial board will invite Capiz Electric Cooperative, Inc. (Capelco) to attend its respective “question hour” to shed light on the said issues.
In Tuesday’s regular session of the City Council, the august body invited the representative of Capelco to explain on the matter.
On the other hand, Board Member Baden Cantiller, chair committee of Transportation, communication and public utilities, yesterday moved to invite the Capelco for the same purpose in their regular session next week.
Earlier, Engr. Edgar Diaz, general manager, said that suffering of power consumers in Capiz brought by subsequent brownouts will soon come to and end.
This was assured by Diaz as additional power from independent power producers are about to go on line.
Diaz said that the repair and maintenance on the generation plant of Panay Power Corporation (PPC) in Brgy. Ingore, La Paz, Iloilo City would already be finished by the third week of June while the Green Core Palinpinon plant in Negros will likewise be serviceable soon.
Diaz added that stable power supply could be fully attained once the Panay Energy Development Corporation’s coal-fired power plant in Iloilo City starts to operate by the last quarter of this year.
Earlier, Diaz said that Capelco incurred loses of some P500,000 a day because of the shortage of power supply from generation companies.
Diaz said in a press conference held at Dante’s Café last Friday that due to the shortage of power supply given by generation companies, the cooperative has no option but to implement a rotating brownout in the municipalities from 8:30 a.m. o 8:00 p.m. and sometimes up to 9:00 p.m.
Capelco consumers have complained about the successive brownouts happening for several weeks.
Capelco has 104,203 member- consumers in the whole province including the component city and it purchased 100 percent power supply from the generation companies.
He said that Capelco has a power supply demand of 23 MW, however, the supply is only 14 MW with a deficit of 9 MW equivalent to 9,000 kilowatts or a loss of some P500,000 a day for the cooperative.
