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P-Noy cites NEA in SONA

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P-Noy cites NEA in SONA

The National Electrification Administration (NEA) was one of the government-owned and controlled corporations cited by President Benigno S. Aquino III for “making the impossible, now possible” during his 3rd State of the Nation Address at the Batasang Pambansa in Quezon City.

The President’s commendation for NEA and the Department of Energy, was for the unprecedented 90-day energization of 1,520 sitios benefitting 30,014 initial household connections during the last quarter of 2011. For more Filipinos to have access to electricity, President Aquino has directed the energization of 1,300 sitios, earmaking a project cost of about P1 million per sitio. With targets that usually accomplished in two years, the NEA-EC Teams have completed these targets in three months spending only P814 million. This was done amidst natural calamities, difficult terrain and administrative and institutional barriers. Close coordination with and cooperation of local government units, local communities and private sector entities was also carried out.

Energy Secretary and NEA Board Chair Jose Rene D. Almendras said, “Rural Electrification (RE) is instrumental in the Aquino Administration’s major infrastructure program as it helps in fulfilling two pillars of his socio-economic agenda: job generation and in the improvement of the lives of the Filipinos, especially the poor.” Hence, he has been fully supportive of the SEP’s implementation.
Administrator Edita S. Bueno meanwhile said, “we are glad for the President’s recognition of the efforts put forth by NEA and the electric cooperatives in electrifying far flung sitios in the country. We expect that the electrification of these sitios will stimulate economic investments and generate significant livelihood projects in remote rural communities.”
For the next four years of the Aquino Administration, NEA has programmed the energization of some 33,000 sitios and connection of about 677,000 households nationwide.###
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