COTABATO City--Power consumers in North Cotabato have nothing to worry as electric cooperative officials are expected to get additional power supply to reduce the number of hours of power interruption that had been plaguing power consumers since February. Within the month, the coal-fired power plant owned by AboitizPower in Davao City becomes fully operational, according to Cotabato Electric Cooperative (Cotelco) said. Godofredo Homez, general manager of Cotelco, said the number of megawatts of power the co-op will purchase from AboitizPower’s Therma South, Inc (TSI) is, at any rate, enough to supply the load needed by their more than 110,000 power consumers all over their service areas. The Cotelco has signed a 10-MW power supply agreement with TSI, three years before the construction of plants could begin.“If TSI begins its operations in July, we can get at least 10MW of power from the coal plant," Homez said. "We have a shortfall of 12MW daily because of a limited supply from the Napocor. And with only 2-3MW of shortfall, we can assure our consumers of brownouts of at least an hour a day, as compared to two to four hours daily," he said. pna