THE National Electrification Administration (NEA) is pushing for power cooperatives to use minigrids to bring electricity to remote areas still not connected to the Philippines’ main grid.

In his remarks at the Philippines Mini-grid Business-to-Business (B2B) Forum in Manila on Thursday, NEA Deputy Administrator for Technical Services Artis Nikki Tortola encouraged the co-ops to “pursue the use of minigrids and distributed generation.”

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