By Staff Writer
Clockwise From Right : Electricity distribution to consumers, Hydro, Windmill, Solar.
A special church service this Sunday at the TATTE Convention Centre will officially open the 50th birthday anniversary celebrations of the Electric Power Corporation.
A Career Open Day is planned for Monday and Tuesday for the public join the birthday celebrations including a song competition to highlight the service.
The prize presentation for the winners of the song and a new EPC logo design competitions will wind up the celebrations.
The anniversary reflects on when the power authority was established in December 1972, to become independent at the time from the Public Works Department.
Diesel generators at the Tanugamanono Power Station provided electricity for Upolu while Savaii was covered by the Salelologa Power Station.
Tanugamanono village complaints forced the power station to be relocate to the more isolated location at Fiaga.
What started off as 100 percent diesel generated electricity for the whole of the country has until more recently started to drop with the influence of less expensive renewable sources of energy.
Hydro, solar and wind electricity have eased off the load on diesel generator to a 70-30 per cent share of the power generation load.
Renewable energy is the cheaper and more preferred source of power generation in Samoa and the global community as well.
The EPC is pushing for renewable energy to take over 70 per cent of the electricity produced for Samoa around the end of the next decade.
Samasoni, Alaoa and Fale-ole-Fee hydro power stations are the first to be built by the EPC.