To sustain its 24 hour operations in the island and improve its power supply, NPC recently inaugurates three (3) units of 600 kW generating sets in Camotes Island, Cebu.
The gensets were installed in Power Barge 116 anchored off in San Francisco, Cmotes Island. It will augment the power supply given by NPC’s Camotes Diesel Power Plant and Power Barge 113.
The new units bring the total available capacity in the island at 4.155 MW which is sufficient in meeting the peak demand of 2.469 MW.
Napocor services around 19,000 in the island which has 3 municiaplities – Poro, Tudela and San Francisco. Camotes’ fourth municipality, Pilar is serviced by a separate power facility, the NPC’s Pilar Diesel Power Plant which services around 3,000 households.