By Lenie Lectura - March 12, 2017
THE Manila Electric Co. (Meralco) is
working to sign more power deals to address its significant
peaking-capacity deficit, as well as possible occurrences of scheduled
maintenance shutdowns and forced outage of power plants during summer months
when demand is at its peak.
Meralco President Oscar S. Reyes
said the company will source an additional 300 megawatts (MW) of capacity for
the utility firm’s summer requirements.
“We are trying to work out another
Ipsa [interim power-supply agreement], about 150 MW to 200 MW for
summer. We are talking to others for maybe 100 MW,” Reyes said.
The additional capacity is meant to
partly fill up Meralco’s power requirements in the coming months, and possibly
for the months of June and July. “Since it’s for summer, we hope approvals will
come in, because it’s going to relieve supply or give assurance of supply at
very compelling prices,” he said.
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