Standard Voltage Rating in the Philippines
 Triple-wire (two phase wires and one
220/440 ` installed.
Three-phase secondary distribution
220/380 voltage, usually used to feed large
commercial users.
Three-phase voltage used for high-leg
220/380/440
delta systems.
Distribution voltage still used on some
areas of Metro Manila, and fed by the
34.5 kV system. Most of these systems
are already obsoleted (customers
3625/6280
connected to 6.28 kV systems being
reconnected to the 34.5 kV system, 6.28
kV lines below 34.5 kV lines discarded,
or 6.28 kV-only lines replaced by 34.5 kV
neutral/ground wire), but two wires
without a neutral are common in the
provinces.
 Usually twisted insulated cable, but bare
wires are also used, mainly in split-
phase systems without a neutral
 Uses small insulators, either one or a set
of three.
Mounted on poles, mostly under primary
distribution lines, but may run on a separate
set of poles, especially on residential areas.
 Four wire or three wire (wye/Y or delta )
system, with three phase wires and one
neutral/ground wire, or three wires with
no neutral.
 Voltage usually obtained from a pole-
mounted transformer bank composed of
three single-phase transformers.
Line typically serves only one customer,
typically commercial users.
*Voltages are 220/440 volts split-phase for
ordinary appliances and lighting, 440 volts
three-phase for larger appliances, and 380
volt high-leg voltage.
 Transformers used can be two, one with
two secondary wires (one links to one
phase wire from the second
transformer), and another carrying three
secondary wires (one is a center tap)and
larger than the other, or a single-phase
transformer with four secondary wires
(one is a center tap linked to a neutral
wire), usually arranged in groups of
three, forming a transformer bank.
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 lines), but still exist on parts of Manila,
Pasay, Quezon City, and Parañaque.
Transformers of 3.625/6.28 kV lines are
distinguishable from those in 34.5 kV
lines by having bushings on the side
rather than on the top.
Standard three-phase distribution line
voltage by many electric cooperatives,
but also used by Meralco in certain areas
7970/13800
(i.e. northern Bulacan, southern Cavite,
(sometimes
7620/13200)
part of central Laguna, and Batangas
City - San Pascual area). May be found
under a 69 kV subtransmission line as a
feeder.
Standard distribution voltage used by
Meralco, but also used by Cagayan
20000/34500 Electric Power and Light Company
(CEPALCO) in some lines in Cagayan
de Oro.
Typical subtransmission line voltage by
NGCP and many provincial electric
cooperatives. Also used by Meralco on
69000 subtransmission line in Bulacan and
Batangas City and the Meralco-owned
Clark Electric Distribution Company
(CEDC) serving Clark Freeport.
Standard subtransmission voltage by
115000 Meralco, especially on Metro Manila,
Laguna, Cavite, Rizal and most of
 Uses one or two-shed pin insulators, but
typically uses one-shed insulators
 Transformers found on the line usually
has two bushings, but only
accommodates one phase.
 Can be either two-phase or three-phase
 Usually overhead power lines, but may
be an underground or overhead cable.
Almost placed roadside, with some
exceptions
 Usually mounted on single poles, usually
with two cross-arms with insulators
forming an asymmetric arrangement or
an "armless" design, where the
insulators are mounted on the pole
instead on a cross-arm, but H-frame
towers, with two or three poles and a
cross-arm, and rarely, lattice towers
(used on one 69 kV line in Isabela and
another in Pampanga) and tubular steel
poles (like on a 69,000 line that leads to
Samal, Bataan) are also used. NGCP
usually uses both poles with cross-arms
and poles with insulators mounted on
them directly, but electric
cooperatives/utilities and Meralco
primarily uses armless poles (Meralco's
subtransmission line linking its two
substations in Batangas City with the JG
Summit chemical plant in Simlong,
however, uses both designs, with and
without cross-arms, like some NGCP
subtransmission line that parallel some
of its segments).
 Uses hanging insulators, mounted on
the cross-arm placed on the pole, or pin
insulators mounted on the pole itself.
 Lines may link to large industrial users
fed directly to the subtransmission grid.
*Usually mounted on insulators on single
poles, either wood,concrete, or steel and
with or without cross-arms, but H-frame
 Bulacan. Used also by NGCP on some
subtransmission lines in Cavite and
transmission lines in Ilocos Region.
Typical voltage of NGCP transmission
138000
lines in Visayas and Mindanao.
Typical voltage of NGCP transmission
230000
line in Luzon.
towers or lattice towers are also used.
 May feed a large industrial customer
connected to the subtransmission grid.
 Cables are usually single-conductor, but
double-bundle cable are also used.
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 *Usually supported by lattice towers, but
can also be used on tubular steel poles
(i.e. Hermosa-Balintawak, Limay-PPDC,
SMC Consolidated Power Plant-Limay,
Bay-Biñan, Mexico-Hermosa, Biñan-
Muntinlupa, Limay-Hermosa, Limay-
GNPower, Hermosa-San Jose, etc.)