VECO to inaugurate new Ermita substation

CEBU, Philippines - The Visayan Electric Company (VECO) will inaugurate its newly renovated and upgraded Don Gil Garcia substation (formerly the Ermita substation) near Carbon Market on January 15, 2014.

DGG has been providing electricity to Cebu City for nearly a century.  It is VECO's oldest substation, which has provided electricity to Cebu City's old commercial districts of Carbon, Magallanes, Pasil and Colon in the downtown area and stretching to as far as N. Bacalso Avenue to Basak, Pardo in the south of Cebu City.

The renovation and upgrading work of the Ermita substation started in October 2012. 

The new substation features state of the art equipment: fully automated switchboards, power transformers and circuit breakers called the Condition Based Monitoring, Switch-yard and OLTC automation. These equipment are remotely monitored via VECO Control and Monitoring Center of the company's Systems Operations Department (SOD).

The new system is aimed at reducing operating and maintenance costs. The facility can provide a more flexible operation, isolation of any breaker for maintenance work may be done without causing service interruptions and short circuits on any one (1) of the buses will not interrupt service to any circuits.

The Ermita station will now be known as the Don Gil Garcia Switch-yard and substation in remembrance of Don Gil Garcia who was VECO president for nearly 50 years. (FREEMAN)