Updated August 10, 2017, 11:06 AM By
Tara Yap
Iloilo City — Applications for new
renewable energy projects in Negros and Panay Islands have been put on hold.
Rey Maleza of the Department of
Energy (DOE) told Manila Bulletin renewable energy proponents must be subject
to an impact study conducted by National Grid Corporation of the Philippines
(NGCP), the private transmission line connecting power producers to power
distributors.
But NGCP is too busy repairing and
upgrading its infrastructure to conduct such a study, Maleza said.
Negros Occidental is considered as
the country’s solar energy capital. It has the 132.5-megawatt (MW) Cadiz Solar
Power Plant, the biggest solar energy project in Southeast Asia, the 59-MW
San Carlos Sun Power, the 48-MW Negros Island Solar Power Inc., the 25-MW Silay
Solar Power Inc., and 22-MW San Carlos Solar Energy Inc.
Biomass plants are also to be built
in the Negros Occidental towns of La Carlota, Manapla and San Carlos.
There are wind farms in the island
province of Guimaras and Nabas town, Aklan, an 8-MW hydro-power plant in
Bugasong, Antique, and a 5.67-MW solar farm in Miag-ao, Iloilo province.
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