Published
February 1, 2018, 10:00 PM By Myrna M. Velasco
Since
the start of its corporate life at the restructuring of the country’s power
sector, state-run Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management Corporation
(PSALM) reported that the level of its debt payments already reached P1.47 trillion,
although it is still not enough to tangibly wipe out its liabilities.
In
fact, on the company’s assessment as well as of its parent-firm agencies, its
liabilities cannot even be stamped out yet at the end of its corporate life in
2026.
In
a statement to the media, PSALM noted that its debt settlements comprised of
P555.7 billion maturing obligations with independent power producers (IPPs);
P567.7 billion principal debts; and R364 billion interest and other charges.
Last
year alone, the company indicated that payments of financial obligations
amounted to P73.3 billion, accounting for P55.9 billion debts and IPP
obligations; and P17.4 billion interests.
It
similarly noted that beyond the P73.3 billion it paid in 2017, it settled
additional P10 billion dues to the State – chiefly with the Bureau of the
Treasury “for its advances to PSALM in 2016 that was utilized to bridge
financing gap.”
The
company explained that “funds in settling PSALM’s assumed financial obligations
are sourced from collections from its power generation, privatization proceeds
and universal charge.”
On
its mandate of divesting the power assets of its precursor firm National Power
Corporation, PSALM stressed that proceeds hovered at P528 billion.
Additionally,
universal charge collections from stranded contract costs had summed up to
P56.9 billion.
“PSALM’s
financial obligations peaked to P1.24 trillion in 2003 from P831 billion in
2000,” the company has emphasized.
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