Solutions to lower Kaelco's high power cost presented

TABUK CITY, Kalinga: From the academe, engineer Danilo Falgui, professor of electrical engineering at the Kalinga State University (KSU), presented three solutions to mitigate technical systems loss to lower the cost that is passed on to member-consumers.

Kalinga-Apayao Electric Cooperative's (Kaelco) system loss, which is currently pegged at 15 percent or equivalent to around P2.7 million every month, is deemed too high. To lower it, Falgui recommended first improving the electrical efficiency of consumers that use inductive load, a type of load that consumes a lot of power, such as those with rice mills and stone crushers.