STA. CRUZ, Davao del Sur, Apr. 20 – After generating over 600 GWh last year from its run-of-river hydropower plants in Benguet, Ilocos Sur, and Davao, Hedcor attests its high reliability when it comes to power generation.
“We are producing power efficiently and reliably for more than 30 yearsnow,” Hedcor Vice President Boy Jabonillo said. “Reliability for us means we deliver to our customers as promised. Making our plants reliable to produce power is a year-round responsibility,” Jabonillo added.
He pointed out three reasons why Hedcor hydropower system is reliable.
First, Hedcor makes sure its plants are readily available to generatepower. Hedcor maintains its plant through constant monitoring of equipmentand its annual preventive maintenance schedule for optimum performancethroughout the year. In fact, the plants are averaging 98% reliable.
regions. In Mindanao, there are five plants that Hedcor is currently developing, it will bring 55 MW of additional capacity to Davao City, Davao del Sur and Bukidnon in 2014.
“We have a unique operational ability in which we can provide energyregularly to power our customers because water is accessible in our area”,Jabonillo said.
Lastly, Hedcor intensifies its watershed management activities includingreforestation, river clean up and riverbank stabilization as the company’soperations is highly dependent on available water.
“A healthy watershed ensures us water will always be available”, he said.
Hedcor, the AboitizPower wholly-owned subsidiary, is the largest developerof run-of-river hydropower systems with 19 generating plants in thecountry. The five projects are under application with the Department ofEnergy as Renewable Energy (RE) Projects under the Renewable Energy Act.
Once RE Contracts are issued, two of the five plants can start constructingwhile the three can progress to detailed design. Without the RE Contract,Hedcor cannot get the other permits to progress the project toconstruction. (Hedcor)
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