Operations and Maintenance Scheme. Operations and maintenance schemes devised by each executing agency are as described below. PNOC-EDC The operations and maintenance of the process of directing steam to the generating stations and returning hot water underground is handled by the same offices which handled the geothermal well development. The South Negros Geothermal Development Project, set up within the Geothermal Division, has responsibility. Under its administrative umbrella are 298 people, including 91 maintenance personnel. Of these maintenance personnel, twenty, including managers, are engineering- related posts. NPC The operation and maintenance management of the power station as a whole and the transmission of electricity from Negros to Cebu islands is handled by the Negros Oriental Complex. Under its administrative umbrella are 213 people, including 60 maintenance personnel. Southern Negros Geothermal Project Maintenance FCDS Maintenance Civil Works Fabrication & Equipment Electrical / I&C Mechanical Planning & Schedule Maintenance Office of the Manager 【 Figure 2.4 Organization Chart of PNOC-EDC(Southern Negros Geothermal Project) 】 【 Figure 2.5 Organization Chart of NPC (Negros Oriental Complex） 】
Operations and Maintenance Scheme. In PEA head office there is an operation department and a maintenance department under the authority of the deputy governor for operation and maintenance. These departments handle all aspects of plans and policy direction in their fields. The electrical technicians of the technical sections of offices are mainly responsible for transformers and other major equipment, carrying out operations and maintenance according to the instruction manuals prepared by the equipment manufacturers. The operations and maintenance of electricity distribution lines is conducted by the electrical engineers of branches and provincial offices, using manuals prepared by PEA. In the event of a power failure, which is the most serious problem for the customers, the repair and recovery process follows the procedure described below. First, the affected residents telephone PEA customer service unit to report the black out. In rural communities where there is not a telephone in every house, the villagers report the black out to the head of the village, who will use his telephone or wireless set to relay the report to the customer service unit. Therefore, the unit is ready to receive calls 24 hours a day. The staff member who takes the call will investigate the condition of the circuit breakers in the substation which serves the affected area. He will then go to the area affected by the power failure and examine the distribution transformers, fuses and low-voltage distribution lines, working through the distribution system from upstream to downstream, to find the cause. He then eliminates the cause and restores power. This process is inefficient and time-consuming, so XXX has asked the Japanese government for assistance and is now receiving technical cooperation from JICA to improve the matter. The cooperation provided includes, JICA experts dispatched to "Improvement of Distribution System Reliability Project" and "Training in Distribution Automation System" by project type technical cooperation.
