‘The best option’; Ceneco-Ignite Power partnership seen to improve power services

Posted by watchmen
May 14, 2023
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Joint venture agreement is the best course of action for consumers of Central Negros Electric Cooperative seeking improvement in power distribution services, says MORE Electric and Power Corporation president and chief executive officer Roel Castro.
Joint venture agreement is the best course of action for consumers of Central Negros Electric Cooperative seeking improvement in power distribution services, says MORE Electric and Power Corporation president and chief executive officer Roel Castro.

By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga

Power distribution and supply services are seen to improve in the proposed joint venture agreement (JVA) between the Central Negros Electric Cooperative (Ceneco) and Ignite Power.

“This partnership is the best option,” said Roel Castro, president and chief executive officer of MORE Electric and Power Corporation (MORE Power), the sole power distributor in Iloilo City and sister company of Ignite Power.

Ceneco has long been needled by consumers due to poor and unreliable power distribution and supply in Bacolod City and the neighboring Negros Occidental municipalities of Murcia and Don Salvador Benedicto, and the cities of Bago, Talisay and Silay.

The electric cooperative has more than 214,000 member-consumers in its franchise area.

Castro said the JVA is the best course of action for Ceneco consumers to seek improvement.

“In Iloilo, before we came in, I made a commitment to invest in capital expenditures to secure good facilities and good people to deliver better service,” he said.

Iloilo City residents now enjoy a more reliable electricity supply, thanks to the state-of-the-art equipment and technologies that MORE Power introduced.

Consumers are enjoying affordable electricity rates while power interruptions have been dramatically minimized.

Meanwhile, Castro played down those skeptical of the proposed partnership.

“If you are having two to three brownouts a day, happy with nobody answering your concerns, happy that if you are disconnected, you get reconnected within three to four days, so be it,” Castro said.

He recently gave a briefing to Negros Occidental Governor Eugenio Jose Lacson and Vice Governor Jeffrey Ferrer regarding the proposed Ceneco-Ignite Power JVA.

“Personally, I believe in the management of MORE Power,” Lacson said, citing MORE Power’s good track record in Iloilo City.

Ferrer also expressed support for the JVA, saying it is advantageous to power consumers./DGB, WDJ

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