NGCP Showcases Specialized Skills At Substation Personnel Skills Competition

NGCP Showcases Specialized Skills At Substation Personnel Skills Competition

Power grid operator NGCP’s technical personnel are set to display their highly specialized technical expertise during the first Maintenance and Testing Division (MTD) and Substation Personnel Skills Competition at NGCP’s Mexico Substation in Pampanga from January 28 to 30.

A first of its kind for NGCP, the competition will provide a venue for representatives of North Luzon, South Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao MTDs and substations to share best practices while engaging in friendly competition. The event will also allow non-technical personnel to better appreciate the rigors of day to day operations in high-voltage substations.

The competition events include finding defects in the substation, addressing problems on operating procedures and safety, and testing and trouble shooting of transformers and protection relays, among others. These will determine the level of efficiency and compliance with operational and safety procedures, a criterion NGCP places in top priority and allows zero tolerance for non-compliance across all other aspects of its operations.

In a statement, NGCP President and CEO Henry Sy, Jr. emphasized that, “More than showcasing the competence and expertise of NGCP personnel, the competition is also an opportunity to honor NGCP’s frontliners. Our substation and MTD personnel are some of our unsung heroes. Their commitment to their work ensures the security and reliability of NGCP’s facilities and assures our grid customers, and also the general public, of the quality of power transmission services.”

In time for the opening of the three-day skills competition, NGCP will also inaugurate its Power Training Center in Mexico, Pampanga on January 28.The new training center boasts of a mini-substation equipped with 230-kV and 69-kV switchyard basic components and other substation equipment, a control room, a lecture room, and the district command center for disaster monitoring. The facility fully supports the enhancement of the technical skills and proficiency of newly hired and regular substation and MTD engineers and technicians.

NGCP is a privately owned corporation in charge of operating, maintaining, and developing the country’s power grid. It transmits high-voltage electricity through “power superhighways” that include the interconnected system of transmission lines, towers, substations, and related assets. The consortium holds the 25-year concession to operate the country’s power transmission network and is comprised of Monte Oro Grid Resources Corp., led by Henry Sy, Jr., Calaca High Power Corporation, led by Robert Coyiuto, Jr., and the State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC) as technical partner. /MP