by Myrna Velasco March
3, 2016
Houston, Texas – In
its vision of globally interconnected power grids, State Grid Corporation of
China (SGCC) – the foreign technical partner of the National Grid Corporation
of the Philippines (NGCP), is in parallel exploring prospects of linking the
Philippine electric transmission system to its neighboring power markets in
Southeast Asia.
State Grid vice
president Yimin Wang indicated this to global journalists during his briefing
in the recently-concluded IHS-CERA Week.
“We have a study for
(power grids) interconnection in Asia – we divided Asia into five regions, the
Philippines is part of the Southeast Asia so that’s where we included it in the
study,” he said.
Wang added the preliminary outcome of the
propounded link-up of power grids will be released by end-March this year in an
industry event that the company will host in Beijing.
“Since Asia is very
important load center and it is also a very important continent for the global
energy interconnection strategy, what I can say now is, we are doing in-house
study now focusing on the Asia area – a very detailed one,” he stressed.
It has long been
envisioned by energy planners in the Philippines that its power grid will
eventually have its way to getting linked with the electricity transmission
highway of its neighbors in the region.
In fact, the planned
interconnection of Visayas and Mindanao is being lined up as precursor to the
bigger ambition of eventual physical linking of Asean Power Grids.
It has been State
Grid’s grand target to become the world’s mega-transmission service provider
with its Global Energy Interconnection (GEI) venture.
According to State
Grid chairman Zhenya Liu, “the (GEI) proposal not only depicts a new blueprint
for green and low-carbon development of world energy, but also paves a new
roadmap for combating climate change.”
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