Friday, September 9, 2016

ERC defers decision on power deals with pending ECCs



By Danessa Rivera (The Philippine Star) | Updated September 9, 2016 - 12:00am

MANILA, Philippines - The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) has deferred its decision on eight proposed power supply agreements (PSAs) which have pending environmental compliance certificates (ECC) from the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR).
The power regulator resolved to hold in abeyance the processing of applications for approval of PSAs following the DENR’s request in view of the ongoing re-evaluation of ECCs.
“The ERC fully shares DENR’s concern to ensure the protection of the environment and is determined to help safeguard the people’s right to a balanced and healthful ecology in accordance with the Constitution”, ERC chairman and CEO Jose Vicente B. Salazar said.
The eight pending applications with deficient or without ECCs are: Misamis Oriental II Electric Cooperative Inc. and Astronergy Development Mindanao Inc.; Palawan Electric Cooperative(Paleco) and Delta P Inc.; Cebu I Electric Cooperative and Mariveles Power Generation Corp. (MPGC); Cebu II Electric Cooperative and MPGC; Aurora Electric Cooperative and MPGC; Pampanga II Electric Cooperative Inc. and MPGC; and separate filings of Tarlac I Electric Cooperative Inc. and MPGC.
Astronergy has built a solar power project in Misamis Oriental.
Delta P is Palawan’s biggest independent power producer, which signed a PSA with Paleco to provide supply from its newly-built 26.6-MW bunker-fired power plant.
MPGC is a joint venture between the San Miguel Group and Meralco PowerGen Corp. to build a 4x150-megawatt circulating fluidized bed coal-fired power plant and associated facilities in Mariveles, Bataan.

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