There is now sufficient backup energy provide to run the essential programs of Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) Terminal 3 within the occasion of an influence outage, Manila International Airport Authority officer in cost Bryan Co mentioned on Wednesday.
However, Co mentioned it could nonetheless be inadequate to run the terminal’s air-con in case of an influence interruption.
“As long as we don’t install the emergency power genset that will improve the coverage for the airconditioning system… we can expect that until then, kung nangyari ulit ito (power outage), our air conditioning system will be affected,” Co instructed House members on the congressional inquiry on the facility outage that hit in NAIA Terminal 3 on May 1.
The interruption induced flights to both be delayed or canceled.
Co mentioned the general public bidding for the three mills with two-megawatt capability for the air-con will solely be opened on June 15.
The NAIA Terminal 3 energy outage on May 1 is the second majorpower interruption in 5 months for the reason that similar incident occurred on New Year’s Day.
“Hindi pa po siya covered, but for the other major critical systems, covered na po siya ng existing emergency gensets. These include immigration, check-in counters, luggage… all functioning. What happened last May 1 was that check-in counters were congested due to the outage,” Co mentioned.
With essential programs now related to emergency gensets, Co mentioned NAIA 3’s check-in system would proceed to operate even when an influence outage hits.
“If a power outage happens again, the reboot system won’t take long. This has been corrected since then,” Co mentioned.
In addition, Co assured lawmakers and the general public that airport authorities should not taking the air-con system of the NAIA 3 without any consideration and are already expediting the procurement of recent gensets.
“The air conditioning system is another important aspect because it affects the comfort and convenience of our passengers. That is why we are rushing the purchase of additional six-megawatt capacity gensets for our chillers,” Co mentioned.
“By June 15, we will be opening the bid so as to increase the [existing] 30% genset coverage to include chillers which consume much of the power in NAIA Terminal 3,” he added. —NB, GMA Integrated News
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