By CYRUS M. GARDE
VICTORIAS City — The system loss of the Northern Negros Electric Cooperative, Inc. (Noneco, formerly Vresco) has decreased, said officer-in-charge general manager Dan Pondevilla.
Pondevilla said the system loss dropped to 10 percent in April, six months after he assumed office last October.
At the time he took the position, Pondevilla said the cooperative’s system loss was 18 percent, which is more than the National Electrification Administration (NEA) standard cap of 13 percent.
“Every one percent system loss is equivalent to P1 million worth of losses a month,” he explained. “Since we have a five percent difference, then that’s equivalent to P5 million worth of losses a month.”
He said the system loss last December was 14 percent; January, 13 percent; February, nine percent; and March, 11 percent.
Stabilizing and upgrading Noneco’s substations contributed to the overall system loss drop, Pondevilla said. In the Cadiz City Area, for instance, system loss decreased to six percent from 21 percent, he said.
In Cadiz, the load center in Alegria was transferred behind the new office of Noneco in Brgy. Tinampaan, he said.
He said the load in Manapla and Sagay City areas were upgraded to 10 megavolt-ampere (MVA) from 5 MVA. Noneco also installed new transformers in Victorias City.
These upgrades will stabilize electric load and prevent low voltage, which causes system loss, and brownouts, Pondevilla said.
He said they were also transferring the load center between Escalante and San Carlos cities to between Toboso and Calatrava towns, and replacing wires installed in 1960 yet with new ones.
Pondevilla also said Noneco’s collection is 95 percent, three percent short of NEA’s standard collection cap of 98 percent./PN
