PAGBILAO, Quezon – Luzon power grid would have an additional energy supply of 650 megawatts by the first quarter of 2023 as the new entrant, the Energy World Corporation, disclosed it was finishing the final construction phase of its gas-fired power plant here.
Graham Elliott, executive director of Energy World Corp., said he sees no stumbling block to finally operate its project, its power plant fed by liquified natural gas and the LNG terminal hub which would accommodate all sizes of ships carrying LNG in cryogenic, or frozen in extreme low temperature, state.
Elliott said its 650 mw-power station is in Barangay Ibabang Polo south of the town center of Pagbilao.
He said getting the power plant to be factored in the Luzon grid would come after the final construction of its two gas turbines, with total capacity of 400 mw. With its turbine also with another capacity of 250 the power plant has a total capacity of 650 mw.
“We are looking at initial commissioning of works in April next year,” he told reporters here after he accompanied investors in the plant site in Ibabang Polo. The EWC said the investors were already interested to join the project.
The EWC project was supposed be on stream with the Luzon grid much earlier, but it grounded to a halt in 2018 when the transmission company National Grid Corp. of the Philippines failed to meet its initial target completion of its substation project by April – August 2018.
The NGCP Pagbilao substation would be the interconnection facility for 420-MegaWatt (MW) Pagbilao Coal-Fired Power Plant Expansion, 500MW San Buenaventura Power Coal-Fired Power Plant, EWC power plant and 600MW Energy World Corporation Combined-Cycle Power Plant.
However, I am excited and glad to say that the NGCP station is now almost complete, and we understand that they will be energizing the station to receive power in October or November this year. And that has given us the confidence to restart work to complete the transmission line and to move forward with complete the power and LNG hub terminal,” he added.
“At the moment dont see any roadblocks or hurdles placed on our way and that under President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., in his first state of the nation address, he talked about the use of LNG for the Philippines. We are excited to be part of this move to bring new clean fuel to the Philippines which we believe will help lower the cost of electricity by providing stable, reliable, clean, and efficient power generation,” he said.
Currently, the EWC LNG power station and its LNG hub terminal “is approximately 80 -85 percent complete in the LNG hub terminal and we are about 80 percent complete on the first 200-megawatt gas turbine unit. We are 70 percent complete on the second 200-mw gas turbine unit and then the steam turbine steam recovery generator would come on line 12 months after the first commissioning of the gas turbine”. (PR)