San Vicente, El Nido get additional power supply
The National Power Corporation (Napocor) inaugurated on Wednesday four 600-kilowatt (kW) additional generating sets (gensets) for the power facilities of San Vicente and El Nido. Alfredo R. abala of Napocor Palawan Operations Division said the additional power capacity are needed by both towns because of their rising demand for power supply due to tourism growth. “Mabilis ang pagtaas ng demand dahil mga tourist destinations,” abala said. abala said the San Vicente Diesel Power Plant has currently two open-type gensets with the rated capability of 760 kW and a dependable capacity of 680 kW which is not enough to address the 676 kW peak demand. “Naghahabol kami ng ‘ N-1 capability’. Iyon nga [ibig sabihin ng N-1 capability] kailangan kapag may nasira kang unit, ‘yong matitirang unit mo kaya pang i-handle [‘yong power supply],” said abala. With the added 1, 200 kW dependable capability from the two gensets deployed by Napocor in San Vicente, he said the four opentype gensets together will bring the total dependable capacity of 1, 940 kW, enough to address the highest possible demand of 676 kW including the potential occurrences of machine break down. On the other hand, he said the El Nido Diesel Power Plant now has a total of 4, 050 kW dependable capacity with its two additional open-type gensets from Napocor, sufficient to accommodate and supply the 3, 825 kW demand.