Energy capacity up by 6% in NorMin for Q3

NORTHERN Mindanao’s total installed capacity increased by 538.60 megawatts (MW) for the third quarter this year, which is a 46.14 percent change from the 1,167.20-MW capacity during the third quarter of 2015.

Data from the National Economic and Development Authority (Neda) reported that the increase is attributed to the completion of the FDC Misamis Power Corporation, in Villanueva, Misamis Oriental, and some additions of embedded power sources.

Embedded power sources from all over the region shared about 18 percent of the total installed capacity while embedded generators supply power exclusively to the power companies or utilities and provided cushion that allowed them to serve their franchise areas especially at times when the Mindanao grid experiences supply-demand power gap.

Northern Mindanao has posted an increase in energy sales by 6.3 percent or 52,962,657 more kilowatt-hours during this quarter.

All of the five provinces increased their energy consumption, with the province of Misamis Occidental as the highest increase of energy consumption at 13.1 percent, followed by Camiguin at 10.7 percent.

Misamis Oriental maintains the biggest share of the total energy sales at 65 percent while Camiguin has the least share with only 0.6 percent.

About 87 percent of the households in the region have been energized as of the third quarter this year.

Neda noted a total of 765,134 households have been energized out of the potential 877,728 households across the region.

Households connection posted an increase by 4.7 percent over that of the same period last year.

Also, a total of 8,791 sitios or 86 percent of the total 10,200 sitios region-wide have been provided electricity, making the level of sitio energization up by 11.6 percent, while also leaving 1,409 sitios still unenergized.

While 100 percent barangay electrification has been achieved since 2010, the government’s Sitio Electrification Program fell short of its target to reach 100 percent by 2016 as targeted in the initial plan which has a timeline from 2011 to 2016.

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