Here are some interesting facts regarding power load characteristics in our province.
- 21,872 MW-Hr sold in 2004.
- The peak load registered was 6.5 MW and the base load was 3.2 MW in 2004.
- 68% residential in nature. With 75 % of all households connected to the system.
- Commercial establishments constitute 18%.
- Government buildings comprise the single biggest customer of FICELCO. It represents 12% of the total consumption.
- Street lighting constitutes 2%.
- There are no industrial customers exist in the island.
- In 2005, the trend in consumption shifts more to the commercial load because of mobile telecommunication networks in the island.
- No demand exist yet for irrigation considering 70 % of the people depends on agriculture.
2 comments:
Do you have updated power stats for the province? It is a good picture of the economic status of Catanduanes.
No power used for irrigation? This can only mean two things: that the current irrigation system is working well (diverted naturally from river and streams or use of gasoline-powered pumps ) and that there is no need for electric power because we only have relatively small sizes of farmland (it's mainly rice farming that use irrigation) it is possibly dwindling rather than expanding.
No power consumption for industrial activities? Now that's the main thing why the island economy is small and no longer self-sustaining than it used to be when island population level is still low.
Give it another 10-15 years we will see a different power stats. Where there is need , naturally there is a response to bridge the gap.
Right now, this is only the available data on hand, possible sources of increase in demand for the period 2004 to date would be from the on going circumferential road improvement project - concrete batching and mixing plants.
As to irrigation, we have ample amount of rainful on the island and relying on diesel driven pumps would no longer be sustainable because of high fuel cost. Likewise, it is a cheaper alternative to interconnect with the power grid but too costly to maintain the power lines.
As to industrial activities, it is much cheaper to transport our raw materials to mainland bicol for processing because of cheap power.
The high cost of power makes us less competitive in the open market.
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