The membership of the Aklan Electric Cooperative, Inc. (AKELCO) has increased to 85,427 this year. Its membership of 78,180 in 2004 has increased by 9.26 percent in a two year period.
According to Wilfredo A. Ortiz, AKELCO Institutional Development Department (IDD) manager, the increase in membership was due to the additional 27 barangays energized by AKELCO in 2005 and the corresponding increase of power supply from the National Power Corporation (NPC).
As a result, AKELCO’s household connections also increased to 80,724 in 2005 from 73,861 in 2004 or 8.05 percent.
AKELCO got an average of 10 megawatts per month last year from NPC, an increase by about one megawatt per month compared to 2004.
“AKELCO was able to energize 27 more barangays last year bringing to 354 the total number of energized barangays in AKELCO’s service area,” Ortiz added. There are only 12 energized barangays in each service area, which include all the 17 towns of Aklan, the resort-island of Boracay, and two towns – Libertad and Pandan – in Antique,” he further explained.
The AKELCO also reduced its systems loss performance from a high of over 20 percent in 2002 to around 14 percent last year.
AKELCO hugged the headlines in April 2002 after NAPOCOR cut its power connection for three days due to unpaid bills. Irate resort-owners in Boracay pleaded with Malacañang to break the impasse. Acting on a presidential directive, the National Electrification Administration (NEA) took over AKELCO’s management on April 20, 2002.
Since then, AKELCO has recovered financially and has been given awards and citation by the NEA and the Department of Energy (DOE) for “Unprecedented Excellent Performance” including attaining “A+” category for the first time in 2004 according to Ms. Sylvia R. Quinisio, Asst. General Manager for Human Resource. /MP mailto:madyaas_pen@yahoo.com
According to Wilfredo A. Ortiz, AKELCO Institutional Development Department (IDD) manager, the increase in membership was due to the additional 27 barangays energized by AKELCO in 2005 and the corresponding increase of power supply from the National Power Corporation (NPC).
As a result, AKELCO’s household connections also increased to 80,724 in 2005 from 73,861 in 2004 or 8.05 percent.
AKELCO got an average of 10 megawatts per month last year from NPC, an increase by about one megawatt per month compared to 2004.
“AKELCO was able to energize 27 more barangays last year bringing to 354 the total number of energized barangays in AKELCO’s service area,” Ortiz added. There are only 12 energized barangays in each service area, which include all the 17 towns of Aklan, the resort-island of Boracay, and two towns – Libertad and Pandan – in Antique,” he further explained.
The AKELCO also reduced its systems loss performance from a high of over 20 percent in 2002 to around 14 percent last year.
AKELCO hugged the headlines in April 2002 after NAPOCOR cut its power connection for three days due to unpaid bills. Irate resort-owners in Boracay pleaded with Malacañang to break the impasse. Acting on a presidential directive, the National Electrification Administration (NEA) took over AKELCO’s management on April 20, 2002.
Since then, AKELCO has recovered financially and has been given awards and citation by the NEA and the Department of Energy (DOE) for “Unprecedented Excellent Performance” including attaining “A+” category for the first time in 2004 according to Ms. Sylvia R. Quinisio, Asst. General Manager for Human Resource. /MP mailto:madyaas_pen@yahoo.com
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