Iloilo City — MORE Electric and Power Corp. expects to complete its P115-million Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system and related facilities this year to monitor and control the substations remotely and gather data for analysis that will eventually result in improved service.
MORE Power, led by businessman Enrique Razon Jr., unveiled Panay’s first control center to participants of the 16th Media Seminar organized by the US Embassy during a visit to the facility.
MORE Power president Roel Castro said the control center, SCADA system or the “brain” of the distribution, fiber optics and the point-to-point communication to other substations comprise the P115-million facility upgrading program.
The SCADA system is a harmony of software, hardware and intelligent programming that allows the monitoring, control, data recording and forecasting.
MORE Power vice president for network development and operations group Bernard Bailey Del Castillo said the control center, housed in a new building along Diversion Road, was completed in February.
“This is the way we are integrating the system. For every round of interruption, we actually know how many customers are affected,” Del Castillo said.
The distribution utility decided to build the control center for real-time operations and monitoring to balance the power system and react within seconds in instances of disturbances.
MORE Power’s SCADA system and the new control center reduce turn-around-time, mitigate instances of unplanned outages, automatically restore feeders during outages, increase efficiency in handling of customer complaints and improve power quality.
The company took over as Iloilo City’s power distribution utility in 2020 and has since then invested billions of pesos in rehabilitating inherited infrastructure. It also increased its customer base to 96,705 to date.
