Diaz: Capelco religiously pays obligations to IPPs
ROXAS CITY – Capiz Electric Cooperative (Capelco) general manager Engr. Edgar Diaz denied speculations that Capelco incurs frequent brownouts because of its failure to religiously update its obligation to the Independent Power Producer (IPP).
“Capelco is always paying in advance its obligation to the IPPs,” Diaz said adding that the frequent brownouts must be blamed to the shortage of power supply from the generation companies.
Earlier, both city and provincial legislators invited the cooperative to shed light on what really happened with Capelco which always incur brownouts.
However, the city council in its regular session failed to meet with Capelco since they lack quorum last Tuesday.
Last week, Board Member Baden Cantiller, chair committee of Transportation, communication and public utilities, moved to invite the Capelco for the same purpose in their regular session next week.
In a separate interview, Diaz said that the suffering of power consumers in Capiz brought by subsequent brownouts will soon come to an end.
The assurance of Diaz came after an 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.
It was learned 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.
