Sem-Calaca Power Corp., a unit of the DMCI group, will begin work on the expansion of the 600-megawatt Calaca coal-fired power plant this year, a company official said Friday.
Sem-Calaca director Nestor Dadivas told reporters the company would construct two units of 150-MW circulating fluidized bed power plant for the first phase of the expansion.
“The 2 X 150-MW CFB coal power plant is the first phase of the total 4 x 150 MW. We hope to break ground within the year,” Dadivas, concurrent president of DMCI Power Corp., said. The expansion project will bring the total capacity of the Calaca power complex to 1,200 MW.
Sem-Calaca, a company established by Semirara Mining Corp., a unit of DMCI Holdings Inc., operates the Calaca coal facility.
Dadivas did not say how much the company would spend for the construction of the coal facility. A coal-fired power plant costs around $2 million to $2.5 million per MW to construct on the average.
Dadivas earlier said the company was studying the power demand and supply situation in Luzon in order to make an investment decision for the planned expansion.
The current Calaca facility, which consists of two 300-MW generating units, is primarily designed to run as a base-load plant and utilize local coal from Semirara.
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