Published October 12, 2017, 10:01 PM
By Myrna M. Velasco
Following last weekend’s partial
blackout in Mindanao, the country’s power system operator has announced that it
will be completing reinforcement at the grid by the first quarter of 2019.
That would be ahead of the June,
2019 completion target, the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP)
has emphasized.
The needed strengthening of the
power system pillar in the southernmost power grid is via the Mindanao
230-kilovolt (kV) transmission project, primarily to support the capacity
wheeling of additional power plants installed in the area.
Fundamentally, this venture covered
the reinforcement of the 138kV Matanao-Toril-Bunawan and 230kV
Balo-i-Maramag-Bunawan transmission lines.
NGCP stressed that “various key
substations will also be upgraded in order to accommodate the line and the
additional power expected to flow through the system.”
It explained that once this
transmission backbone is in place, it would be able to “accommodate renewable
and conventional power plants in the northern and southern part of Mindanao.”
In turn, this could shore up power
capacity flux from Lanao del Norte, through to Agusan del Sur and all the way
up to Davao del Sur.
NGCP has primarily indicated that
the transmission project’s completion would enable optimized connection of the
power plants of GNPower and San Miguel Global Power Holdings to the grid, thus,
“mitigating the once known vulnerabilities of hydropower and maximizing the
generating capability of incoming plants.”
This backbone is similarly
considered a critical component of the long-planned Visayas-Mindanao
Interconnection Project (VMIP), in which NGCP intends to concretize as targeted
in the next 46 months.
NGCP expounded that “the Mindanao
backbone is key to the VMIP because it provides the transmission highway to
accommodate the capacity which the interconnection needs for it to be fully
utilized by both Visayas and Mindanao.”
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