Aboitiz-owned Cotabato Light vows to energize all within its franchise area
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COTABATO CITY – Aboitiz-owned Cotabato Light and Power Company (Cotabato Light) is eyeing to fully energize all the 81 sub-villages (sitios) in the company’s franchise area before the year-end, the firm official said.
Cotabato Light, a subsidiary of the Aboitiz Power Corporation, has already energized 72 rural communities through its Sitio Electrification Program (SEP) in remote communities of Sultan Kudarat and Datu Odin Sinsuat towns in Maguindanao and is aiming to complete energizing nine other remaining sitios before December 31 this year.
“Cotabato Light has budgeted around P37 million for the SEP and has identified several measures in order to meet the completion and full energization target by November 2022,” Cotabato Light President and Chief Operating Officer Valentin S. Saludes III, said
He said the power distribution utility would continue to follow its mandate to bring reliable and reasonably-priced electricity to far-flung areas to support the government’s efforts to increase and accelerate community access to electricity services.
Saludes thanked the local government and barangay officials for supporting the project.
Once completed, the rural electrification program is expected to bring electricity to more than 1,000 households, opening more livelihood opportunities to the recipient communities.
Local officials expect more development as electricity reaches remote communities in Sultan Kudarat town in Maguindanao.
“Our people here are grateful to the Cotabato Light for bringing to us the needed electricity. This is a very good development for us,” said Chairman Esmael Mendo of Barangay Rebuken, Sultan Kudarat.
“One of the program’s objectives is to improve the standard of living in the rural areas within the Cotabato Light franchise,” Saludes said.
“We are constantly looking for ways to improve our customers’ services as we continue to transform energy for a better world,” he added.
Cotabato Light’s service area covers the whole of Cotabato City and parts of Datu Odin Sinsuat and Sultan Kudarat municipalities in Maguindanao.
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