Published
November 30, 2018, 10:00 PM By Myrna M. Velasco
The timeline-lapsing
gas fired power plant venture of Energy World Corporation (EWC) in Pagbilao,
Quezon has secured certification as energy project of national significance
(CEPNS) bestowed to it by the Department of Energy.
Energy Secretary
Alfonso G. Cusi said he signed recently the CEPNS for the 650-megawatt EWC gas
power project,” because we need its capacity to meet our future power demand.”
The proposed EWC gas
complex has an integrated liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal, but it
was clarified that it is the power plant component that has been formally
declared as EPNS.
Along with the EWC
facility, the two other projects that had been granted CEPNS had been: First
Quezon Biogas Corporation and DMCI Masbate Power Corporation.
Of the three newly
classified power projects, the one that had array of stumbling blocks when it
comes to implementation and bringing the plant to completion phase had been the
EWC plant.
The project sponsor had
constantly raised concerns relating to transmission connection hurdles, but
according to sources at the energy department, that’s already being addressed.
As early as 2014, EWC
had targeted project completion – and it had gone to the point of offering its
capacity to help augment supply deficiency dilemmas in 2015; but snags had that
timeline missed.
On the DMCI project of
the Consunji group, that is a 15-MW thermal power facility sited in the
municipality of Mobo in Masbate province.
The engineering,
procurement and construction (EPC) contract for the power plant venture had
been awarded to Chinese firms China Energy Engineering Group Company and China
Southeast Asia Electric Power Construction Corp.
For the biogas project in
Candelaria, Quezon province, the technology solutions provider is European firm
ABB Ltd. That particular venture commands investment of US$9.7 million and
would be able to process up to 20 tons of agricultural waste and turn that into
electricity.
The EPNS certification
for energy projects had been prescribed under Executive Order No. 30 that was
issued by President Rodrigo Duterte last year. This targets to streamline
project approvals and permitting processes for qualified projects.
At this stage, the DOE
has already issued CEPNS to about 10 projects – ranging from transmission
interconnection venture, thermal power assets; energy resource extraction and
renewable energy facilities.
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