ILOILO City – Nearly 50 million kilowatt hour of power have been procured by MORE Electric and Power Corp. (MORE Power) from power suppliers in one month.
Based on its first month performance report (Feb. 29 to March 29), MORE Power delivered to consumers here a total of 49,473,447 kilowatt hour of power from Panay Energy Development Corp., Panay Power Corp., Wholesale Electricity Spot Market, and KEPCO.
MORE Power was also able to respond and fix 724 consumer concerns such as requests for power restoration, power quality and meters. Average response time is one hour and 40 minutes.
Meanwhile, 33 new posts replaced dilapidated ones. Fourteen transformers, too, were supplanted as part of preventive maintenance activities.
MORE Power also reported having received and acted upon 5,552 concerns via hotlines, social media and from walk-in clients.
Following an order from Congress and the court, MORE Power also hired 62 former employees of the previous power distribution utility in the city.
Right now, MORE Power has a total work force of 138.
MORE Power president Roel Castro thanked local leaders and consumers for supporting the company’s actions to improve the power distribution service in Iloilo City./PN
