ILOILO CITY – The SPC Island Power Corp., formerly Salcon Power Corp., has agreed to supply electricity to the Iloilo Electric Coop (ILECO) 2, which is expected to end frequent brownouts that affected some 85,000 households in 14 municipalities and one city in Iloilo province.

The agreement was formalized in Cebu City recently with the contract signing ceremony attended by top officials of the two power firms that include Dennis T. VIllareal, president and CEO of the SPC Power Corp., and Vicente A. Paranpan Jr., president of the ILECO 2.

In line with the agreement, SPC Island Power Corp. has committed to supply a total of 25 million kilowatt hours in a span of five years to ILECO 2.

It can be recalled that ILECO threatened to sue the National Power Corp. (Napocor) last year because of the latter’s failure to provide the power needed by the cooperative as specified in their service contract. The power coop carried out rotating brownouts that lasted four hours. (Phoebe Jen Indino)