VECO Chariman Ramontito Garcia (left) leads corporate officials in inaugurating the 69KV Don Gil Garcia Substation at barangay Ermita.
THE Visayan Electric Company (Veco) has invested P140 million on a facility that gives them better contingency during calamities.
The Don Gil Garcia substation (DGG) is the first switching station of Veco which gives them the capability of switching power sources in case of brownouts without interrupting power within the whole franchise area.
The station caters to the whole franchise area from Liloan in the north to San Fernando in the south, said Theresia Gonzales-Sederiosa, Veco corporate communications manager in an interview.
“DGG has been providing electricity to Cebu City for nearly a century. It is Veco’s oldest substation, which has provided electricity to Cebu City’s old commercial districts of Carbon, Magallanes, Pasil and Colon in the downtown area and stretching to as far as N. Bacalso Avenue to Basak, Pardo in the south of Cebu,” she said.
renovation
In October 2012, Veco started renovation and upgrading work on the Ermita substation to become what it is now, the DGG substation or switchstation, Sederiosa said.
“The new system is aimed at reducing operating and maintenance costs. It can provide a more flexible operation, isolation of any breaker for maintenance work may be done without causing service interruptions, and short circuits on any of the buses will not interrupt service to any circuits,” Sederiosa said.
The new substation’s features include fully automated switchboards, power transformers and circuit breakers called the Condition Based Monitoring, Switch-Yard and OLTC automation.
These equipment units are remotely monitored via Veco Control and Monitoring Center of the company’s System Operations Department.
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