NGCP studying cable connection

National Grid Corp. of the Philippines assured the government it is studying the most feasible way to implement the Visayas-Mindanao interconnection project.

National Grid spokesman Cynthia Perez-Alabanza said the interconnection project had been conceptualized as early as the 1980s but did not push through due to a number of reasons.

“That’s been around since the 80’s. It did not push through because it’s very difficult. We are already in the fourth route,” Alabanza said.

The official said it was only during the power crisis in Mindanao in 2010 that Congress urged National Grid to study the viability of the interconnection project.

“The problem is, we need a project driver either load growth, capacity addition, reliability,” Alabanza said.