HPSD technology helps light up Ilocos Norte
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The province of Ilocos Norte is among the most brightly-lit in the Philippines, as every barangay now enjoys the benefits of electricity.
Playing a key role in the province’s rural electrification program is FPRDI’s high pressure sap displacement or HPSD method of treating electric poles on-site.
The HPSD system prolongs the service life of power and telecommunication poles, bamboo poles for fishpens, poles for bridges, wharves and mining operations, and pole-type building materials.
It forces the sap of a freshly felled tree out of the wood using a water-borne preservative introduced under pressure thru a cap fitted to one end of the pole.
At the Ilocos Norte Electric Cooperative (INEC), the HPSD shortens the waiting period for treating the poles, thus facilitating the connection to the province’s power grid.
According to the cooperative’s OIC-General Manager Felino Herbert P. Agdigos, the technology has generated for INEC at least Php 22 million in savings for pole treatment. (Rizalina K. Araral and Maybell Mariella A. Amador, 29 September 2014)#
