The National Power Corp. (Napocor) inaugurated on Thursday the Roxas-Taytay 69 kV transmission line in Palawan, stretching the province’s backbone transmission to the northern municipality of Taytay.
“With this new transmission line, we’ll not only improve power dispatch and eventually decrease systems loss, but we can also accommodate more power generators to cater to the growing electricity needs of Palawan,” said Napocor President Martin Y. Roxas.
Napocor said the 71.3 circuit kilometer line project was jointly undertaken by SL Development Construction Corporation and DM Consunji, Inc.
The project, which cost P691 million, was financed from the National Government’s Special Allotment Release Order in previous years.
On top of operating Palawan’s transmission system, Napocor also maintains 24 Small Power Utilities Group (SPUG) power plants in the far-flung islands of Palawan.
“We are happy to be part of this continuous progress of Palawan. We are sure that development doesn’t stop here as we are committed to energizing more areas, sustaining the operations of our power plants here, and optimizing the operations of our 69 kV transmission lines,” said Roxas.
Napocor, as mandated by the Electric Power Industry Reform Act of 2001, is tasked to perform missionary electrification in islands not connected to the main transmission grid.
It performs this mandate by operating 281 SPUG power plants and developing and maintaining the transmission systems of Palawan, Oriental and Occidental Mindoro, Marinduque, Masbate, and Catanduanes.