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BY MAE SINGUAY
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BACOLOD City – Expect your electricity bills for this month to decrease, according to Central Negros Electric Cooperative(Ceneco).
Average per-kilowatt-hour (kWh) charge will drop by P.33 to P8.71 this month from P9.04 in August, Ceneco said.
The rate also decreased by P.72 in August from P9.76 in July, said General Manager Sulpicio Lagarde Jr.
Among the factors to the decrease were the stability of the Wholesale Electricity Spot Market (WESM) price and the decrease in transmission charges, Lagarde said.
Another factor is the expiration of the Filinvest contract in June.
Ceneco and its consumers no longer need to pay 47 percent of the guaranteed 14,601,600 kWh monthly, which were actually unused and just added to the consumers’ billsover the past 18 months, Lagarde disclosed.
System losses were also on a downtrend, to 11.52 percent from 12.38 percent in July.
This was due to the upgrade of 10-megavolt-ampere(MVA) substations on Burgos Street to 30 MVAandthe 5-MVA substations in Barangay Panaogao, Silay Cityto 10 MVA, according to Lagarde.
He said Ceneco avoideda manual load drop or rotating power interruptions during Korea Electric Power Corp.’smaintenance from Aug. 11 to Sept. 6.
It also reduced the cost of replacement power through the WESM and the Energreen Power Development and Management, Inc., a reserve service, at the contracted price of P6.80 per kWh, he said./PN
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