The National Electrification Administration (NEA) held a two-day priority planning conference to 25 electric cooperatives categorized as B and C on January 5-6, 2017 at NEA HESA Building in Quezon City.

The activity primarily aimed to assist ECs who have underperformed in the year 2015 based on the result of the overall performance rating of the said year. The new NEA administrator Edgardo R. Masongsong, who personally administered and served as the resource speaker of the conference, had high hopes that subject ECs would obtain at least a Category A status by 2017.

The presentation revealed that most ECs had problems in coping with high system loss and collection efficiency below the standard. In response, NEA assisted the electric coops in determining their weaknesses and presented valuable and doable solutions to the problem.

BILECO, where high system loss dragged its rating down from Triple A (AAA) to B, shared with the group through OIC GM Gerardo N. Oledan that its reconductoring project bolstered its system’s power quality and reduced its losses. Oledan is optimistic that with the continued efforts of the employees to sustain or even reduce its losses further, BILECO will never be far from standing back at the echelon of best performing ECs.

At the end of the conference, the electric cooperatives signed a commitment confirming to work hand in hand with NEA and to employ necessary measures and initiatives to succeed in its quest for excellence.