Kepco, Salcon to install electricity distribution lines to remote Negros Occidental villages

BACOLOD CITY, March 7 (PNA) – The Korean Electric Power Corp. (Kepco) and Salcon Corp. have agreed to jointly finance the installation of electricity transmission lines to some 184 remote sitios/puroks in Negros Occidental.

The KEPCO, Salcon and the Central Negros Electric Cooperative, Inc. (Ceneco)during a series of surveys, have identified the areas that have yet been electrified.

Ceneco's coverage areas include the cities of Bacolod, Silay, Talisay and Bago, and the municipalities of Murcia and Don Salvador Benedicto.

Based on the results of the survey, 23 sitios or purok from Bacolod City will benefit from the installation of electricity lines, two from the Municipality of Murcia, 80 from Bago City, 47 from Silay City and 32 from Talisay City.

To date 19 percent of the project has been accomplished which is equivalent to, more or less, 35 sitios or purok, as reported by Engr. Mario L. Nicolas, general manager of MN Electro Industrial Supply & Services, the contractor of the said project. (PNA)
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