The National Grid Corporation of the Philippines has completed the upgrade of its Energy Management System in Visayas this year, a press release from NGCP said.

This year's upgrade of System Operations facilities in Visayas is part of a nationwide project that improved the capability of, and integrated NGCP's National Control Center with its Regional Control Centers, the press release said.

This project adopted the use of OPEN 3000 – a state-of-the-art operating system that facilitates effective monitoring and control to ensure the balance of power supply and demand.

The upgrade was needed to replace obsolete hardware and overloaded system software in order to increase system reliability and performance, provide complete system data by accommodating new stations, and integrate the electricity market functions into the EMS, the press release also said.

The SCADA/EMS upgrade in Luzon and Visayas has a combined project cost of P189.4 million. The upgrade in Mindanao, where the regional control center has been moved from Iligan to Cagayan de Oro, cost P126.5 million.

NGCP is a privately owned corporation in charge of operating, maintaining, and developing the country’s power grid.

It transmits high-voltage electricity through “power superhighways” that include the interconnected system of transmission lines and towers, substations and related assets, the press release added.*

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