The National Electrification Administration (NEA) has instructed all 121 electric cooperatives (ECs) to comply with the 2024-2028 projected number of potential consumer connections in pursuit of its accelerated total electrification plan.
NEA Administrator Antonio Mariano Almeda signed a memorandum dated 12 December 2023, encouraging the ECs to harmonize their targets and monitor accomplishments towards the aforesaid goal in line with the Local Total Electrification Roadmap and the Distribution Development Plan.
According to its 2028 Total Electrification Plan, the state-owned corporation seeks to increase potential consumer connections under EC service areas nationwide by 1,359,610. This is based on calculated data from the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) and application of linear programming.
Detailed projections for each power co-op using the Connections Data Entry Template (DET) shall be uploaded on the NEA-Business Intelligence Technology portal and the Barangay Energization Matrix (BEM) by January 2024.
In a separate memo dated 15 December 2023, the NEA said the BEM template was improved to streamline the Connections DET, identify electrification solutions to energize each barangay, and find those with low level of electrification for possible prioritization and funding allocation, among others.
Each EC will be rated accordingly, subject to the implementing guidelines of the Annual EC Overall Performance Assessment, under the “Level of Electrification” parameter, the NEA noted in both memos addressed to Institutional Services Department (ISD) managers.
The state-owned corporation tasked Acting Program Control Section Head Jovani Lagon from the Database Management and Program Control Division (DMPCD) as point person to assist the ECs and address their concerns related to the orders.
The NEA has already made available for download the projected number of potential consumer connections per city/municipality/barangay as well as the enhanced BEM template.
According to the October 2023 Status of Energization report of the Agency, there are at least 16,281,177 potential consumer connections under the franchise areas of ECs, based on the 2020 PSA census. ###
