ILOILO City – MORE Electric and Power Corporation (MORE Power) acquired a brand new mobile substation to be used while its inherited old substations here are being rehabilitated in full.
The power transformers on these substations located in the districts of Jaro, La Paz, City Proper, Molo, and Mandurriao are deemed unsafe already.
The mobile substation from Aktif Elektroteknik has a power transformer load capacity of 30 MegaVolt Amperes (MVA), according to MORE Power president and chief executive officer Roel Castro.
The new 30MVA mobile substation will serve as substitute during the course of the repair, which might last for eight months to one year for each substation, but without long power interruptions.
MORE Power inherited the old substations from the previous distribution utility.
“The existing substations will stop operating while undergoing full rehabilitation, and its work will be transferred to the new 30MVA mobile substation so as to keep serving the feeders and customers,” said Castro.
The Turkey-based Aktif Elektroteknik recently welcomed the engineers and procurement team of MORE Power in its 7,500-square meter factory in Ankara, during their factory acceptance test just this June.
The team was composed of three engineers of MORE Power namely Mark Anthony A. Molano, the Substation and Equipment Testing Assistant Manager; Wilmar J. Gonzaludo, the Substation Project Manager; Paterno C. Cabangisan, OIC-Head, Project Development and Management Department; and the Legal Officer Atty. Allana Mae Babayen-on.
The supplier, Aktif Elektroteknik was established in 1981 and has been operating with more than 40 years of manufacturing experience in modernized machinery line like Medium Voltage Air Insulated (AIS) Switchgears, Mobile Substations, Package Substations and Kiosks.
The mobile substation is expected to arrive in Iloilo City in August and will be stationed at the Molo substation for immediate testing and energization.
This is the second mobile substation acquired by MORE Power. The first was a 10MVA mobile substation last 2020 which was placed in Megaworld to address the big demand and unstable voltage of the Iloilo Business District and at the same time stabilize the critical load of the Mandurriao substation.
MORE Power aims to further improve the distribution of electricity in Iloilo City by making it more efficient, sufficient and reliable, to lure more investors and better serve their increasing number of consumers./PN
