By ALFREDO P
HERNANDEZ
THE daily
brownouts in Jose Panganiban, mostly occurring two to three times a night, will
end soon.
This was the good
news from Cesar Brondia, director for Jose Panganiban of the Camarines Norte
Electric Cooperative (Canoreco).
Brondia told
MWBuzz that the daily brownouts plaguing the municipality's 9,000 subscribers
comprising residential, commercial and industrial users are expected to end by
June.
"A new
5MVA-power substation which is now being constructed at a 500-square meter
property at Baranggay Sta Rosa Sur will be completed by the end of this month
(May)," according to Brondia.
"It would be
put on stream immediately after," he said.
Brondia said that
the frequent brownouts are caused by an overload of power caused by a number of
illegal connections traced to illegally-operated mining activities and a number
of illegal transmitters.
He said a team
from the power cooperative has begun dismantling said illegal power connections
and appropriate legal charges would be filed soon against the culprits.
Brondia said the
municipality of Jose Panganiban shares a 5MVA-substation with the municipality
of Paracale.
This substation
taps electricity from the power grid of the Aboitiz Power Resources Inc.
The new
substation transmitter will be funded by a P150 million loan from the
PCI-Equitable Bank.
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