Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Meralco OKs Aboitiz power deal

Manila Standard Today
by Alena Mae S. Flores


The board of Manila Electric Co., the country’s largest power distributor, approved the signing of a power supply agreement with Therma Luzon Inc., a unit of Aboitiz Power Corp.


Meralco chief operating officer Oscar Reyes said the seven-year power supply agreement involving the delivery of 350 megawatts will be signed shortly.


“We are in the final stages of closing contract. This is for Pagbilao [coal-fired power plant] with Therma Luzon. We are talking of initially 350 MW,” Reyes told reporters.


Aboitiz Power, a publicly-listed holding company that has interests in hydroelectric and coal power plants owns, Thema Luzon, which administers the contracted capacity of the Pagbilao power plant in Pagbilao, Quezon.


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(Published in the Manila Standard Today newspaper on /2012/february/29.)

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