Danessa Rivera (The Philippine
Star) - November 10, 2018 - 12:00am
MANILA, Philippines — The National
Grid Corp. of the Philippines (NGCP) is confident it will complete the major
transmission line connecting Mindanao to the rest of the power grid by 2020.
The grid operator broke ground last
month on cable terminal stations in the municipality of Santander, Cebu, and
Dapitan City, Zamboanga del Norte of the Mindanao-Visayas Interconnection
Project (MVIP).
NGCP said the project is a testament
to its commitment to complete the MVIP and realize a one Philippine grid in
2020.
“We are confident that the NGCP team
will exhibit the commitment and skills needed to push the project and realize
the interconnected transmission network within the committed timeframe,” NGCP
said in a statement.
The cable terminal stations serve as
the landing points of the two 92-kilometer submarine cables which will carry
around 450-megawatts (MW) of power from the Visayas and Mindanao, and vice
versa.
The MVIP, provisionally approved by
the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) in 2017, is considered the biggest power
infrastructure project in the country’s history.
Apart from the submarine cables and
cable terminal stations, the P52-billion project also entails the installation
of 526 circuit-kilometers of overhead transmission lines, high-voltage direct current
converter stations, and various upgrades to substations in both regions.
Last May, the Department of Energy
(DOE) certified the MVIP as an energy project of national significance in order
to streamline and expedite the needed documents for the construction and
completion of the project.
NGCP is a Filipino-led, privately
owned company in charge of operating, maintaining, and developing the country’s
power grid, led by majority shareholders Henry Sy Jr. and Robert Coyiuto Jr.
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