By Mary Grace Padin (The
Philippine Star) | Updated September 27, 2016 - 12:00am
MANILA, Philippines - First Gen
Corp. has finally started the commercial operations of its 97-megawatt (MW)
Avion natural-gas fired power plant in Batangas City after it has been cleared
by the Philippine Electricity Market Corp. (PEMC) to start trading its output.
In a disclosure to the Philippine
Stocks Exchange (PSE) yesterday, First Gen said the PEMC has acknowledged the
start of Avion’s participation in the Wholesale Electricity Spot Market. With
this, Avion power plant’s output can now be offered and traded in the WESM.
“We are pleased to announce that
Avion has finally achieved commercial operations. We likewise await the
certificate of compliance (COC) for the 414-MW San Gabriel plant. These two
plants will add much needed power supply to stabilize the grid,” First Gen
president and COO Francis Giles Puno said.
First Gen’s subsidiary, Prime
Meridian Powergen Corp. (PMPC), received its certificate of compliance issued
by the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) for the Avion power plant last Sept.
7.
The power plant has been certified
as a fast-start generator, and can immediately supply electricity during hours
when power demand surges and there’s a supply shortage in the grid. It is
located within the First Gen Clean Energy Complex in Barangay Bolbok, Batangas
City.
The plant was supposed to deliver
power during the summer months of 2015.
However, the project faced delays
after IstroenergoGroup (IEG) and its Philippine branch company Energy Project
Completion Ltd. (EPC), contractors for turnkey engineering, procurement, and
construction, failed to comply with their obligations.
Thus, PMPC terminated the contracts.
Slovakian firm IEG was tapped in August 2014 to construct and commission the
Avion plant.
Since then, the Avion plant has been
undergoing commissioning and testing until the COC was issued.
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