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Friday, April 28, 2006
TransCo to review services in Mindanao
THE National Transmission Corporation will review the work it has accomplished as against its target for the first quarter and will validate whether transmission services are responding to the demand as well as provide improvement measures to applicable areas.
TransCo president and chief executive officer Allan Ortiz will review actual versus planned transmission line and substation maintenance activities of all six districts in Mindanao.
Ortiz will also look into the quality of power transmission service delivered to the customers in Mindanao's six districts, which are mostly cooperatives.
"The number and the duration of unscheduled service interruptions to customers count as the major criteria in the performance assessment," TransCo corporate communications officer Milfrance Capulong said.
She said the reporting of Mindanao district managers will include actual work completed plus replacement of wood poles, cross arms and insulators, thermal scanning on line connectors, right-of-way clearing, low sag corrections, pole stubbing and conduct of hotline maintenance.
TransCo's workplan for the first quarter in Mindanao is set to replace a total of 242 wood poles, 220 cross arms, 561 insulators and 42 connectors, while pole-to-pole inspection was to be done on 9,222 linear kilometers of transmission lines all over the island.
Parallel to inspection it also prioritized the clearing of right-of-way for a total of 1,814 linear kilometer of high-voltage transmission lines for the same period.
The "right-of-way" clearing remains one of the critical tasks TransCo Mindanao undertakes taking up sizeable operational budget that goes to claim of lot owners and labor crisis.
Capulong also said that if lot-owners and tenants will cooperate more by not planting tall-growing trees within the right-of-way of power transmission lines, savings could well be realized in that particular expense account.
"The removal of grass around wood poles to prevent grass fire from affecting wood poles, repair and replacement of line guys and pole stubbing/reinforcement are also among top activities to be reported," Capulong said.
The report on hot line works, planned on 155 structures will also be one of the highlights of the operations evaluation.
"Hotline consists of the work done on live or energized lines; it results to less line shutdowns but more savings for government as explained by Adasa," she said.
Capulong said TransCo assumed the electric transmission function of National Power Corporation (Napocor) from which it was spun off as a separate agency under Electric Power Industry Reform Act of 2001 (RA 9136).
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