By Danessa Rivera (The
Philippine Star) | Updated March 13, 2017 - 12:00am
MANILA, Philippines - The
National Grid Corp. of the Philippines (NGCP) is looking to spend P80 billion
for critical transmission projects until 2020.
This was the amount filed with the
Energy Regulatory Commission for approval, NGCP research and special studies
head Vicente Viloria said during 2016 Business Journalism Seminar organized by
San Miguel Corp. and the Economic Journalists Association of the Philippines.
“We already submitted for 2016 and
then second we submitted the capital expenditures for 2016 to 2020. I think the
total is already P80 billion approximately. Most of them are already approved
but some projects, the approval is still pending,” he said.
The application, however, is still
subject to changes based on the evaluation and final decision of the power
regulator, Viloria said.
Based on NGCP data, 24 projects are
set for completion this year, 26 are in the middle of construction, and 22 projects
will commence.
In total, an additional 674.9
circuit-kilometers of lines will be added to the country’s transmission network
for 2017 alone.
Among the projects NGCP is pursuing
under the five-year program are the Luzon 500-kilovolt (kV) backbone to accommodate
incoming generating plants, the Cebu-Negros-Panay backbone to improve power
sharing between the major islands, and the Mindanao 230-kV backbone to
reinforce the Mindanao grid as new plants come online.
Also part of the program is the
replacement of wooden poles and other aging transmission facilities the grid
operator inherited from the National Transmission Corp. when it took over as
concessionaire in 2009.
For this year, the grid operator is
set to replace 2,134 wood poles that are considered grid facilities with steel
structures. It is also set to replace an additional 417 wood poles which are
considered as residual sub-transmission assets.
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