By Danessa Rivera (The
Philippine Star) | Updated August 18, 2016 - 12:00am
MANILA, Philippines – A unit of
Aboitiz Power Corp. is upgrading the capacity of its 25-year old run-of-river
hydropower plants in La Trinidad, Benguet more than three times to add supply
to the Luzon grid.
AboitizPower said its wholly owned
subsidiary Hedcor Inc. is increasing the capacity of the
existing Bineng run-of-river cascading plants.
Hedcor will raise the current
capacity of Bineng 1, Bineng 2 and Bineng 2b from 5.48
megawatts to 19 MW.
Targeted to be online by 2018, the
project is expected to generate an additional 42.7 million kilowatt-hours (kwh)
or a total generation of 62 million kwh annually.
Hedcor is currently processing its
free prior informed consent with the National Commission on Indigenous People
and various stakeholders.
Constructed in 1991, the
Bineng hydropower plants are one of the first plants constructed by Hedcor
in Benguet.
The facilities harness the water of
Balili River which flows northward from Baguio City to La Trinidad.
All the Bineng plants hold
International Organization for Standardization (ISO) certifications, namely
Quality Management, Environmental Management, Information Security and
Occupational Health and Safety.
For 25 years,
Barangay Bineng and the municipality of La Trinidad had been partners
with Hedcor, which was the highest taxpayer of the municipality from 2007 to
2009.
With the upcoming expansion,
AboitizPower said the existing shares, taxes and corporate social
responsibility (CSR) projects to the barangay, municipal and the province are
seen to increase.
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