THE Visayas State University is set to build a power plant building that aims to help the university avoid electrical damages due to rotating brownouts.

VSU said a total of P50 million was alloted for the project; P48 million of which will be used to buy new generators while the rest will be for the construction of the building.

The university said the project was initially proposed in 2020 and will ramp up the university’s generator set to 1.5MW, which is crucial to protect controlled environments and temperature in research centers and laboratories.

“Since the university is expanding, our old generator can no longer cope whenever there are power interruptions. When there are blackouts during daytime, we can only give power supply to the administration building as the most important transactions are being made there,” VSU Physical Plant Director Engr. Mario Lilio P. Valenzona said on VSU’s website.

“Other than the admin, we cannot accommodate all the departments’ needs due to the insufficient power capacity of our current generator. That’s the reason why we seek to procure a new genset capable of powering up the whole university in times of power outages,” he added.

The venture will commence once the project finalizes its winning bidder along with the approval of the VSU Board of Regents.