NGCP donates classrooms for Mindanao

MANILA, Philippines - The National Grid Corp. of the Philippines (NGCP), the grid operator, has donated classrooms to a Muslim school in Zamboanga in Mindanao.

NGCP has donated new two-classroom building to the Poblacion Muslim Elementary School in Zamboanga-Sibugay for its Grade 1 and 2 students.

The school used to have only three rooms accommodating more than 100 students, NGCP said.

As such, the new building with two classrooms, courtesy of NGCP is a welcome addition to the existing facilities.

The community where the school is located is host to NGCP’s 69 kilovolt Ipil-Salug transmission line.

NGCP held a turnover ceremony recently with Armand S.Dysico, OIC of NGCP’s District 1 Mindanao Operation and Maintenance; Edinower J. Cabanos, chief transmission line engineer, Hermie H. Hamoy, chief substation engineer; Department of Education (DepEd) and barangay officials, as well as parents, teachers, and barangay residents.

The grid operator said the project affirms its commitment to promote education.

It also has other projects implemented through various partnership programs with the academe and local government units. 

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, towers, substations, and related assets. 

The consortium, which holds the 25-?year concession contract to operate the country’s power transmission network., is comprised of Monte Oro Grid Resources Corp. led by Henry Sy Jr., Calaca HighPower Corporation led by Robert Coyiuto Jr., and the StateGrid Corporation of China (SGCC) as technical partner.