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By Myrna M. Velasco
The roll of “energy
projects of national significance” (EPNS) had been extraordinarily beefed up
with the mass approval extended by the Department of Energy (DOE) to proposed
power facilities – primarily for projects lined up by the National Grid Corporation
of the Philippines (NGCP) and state-run National Power Corporation.
By itself, the biggest
project that was granted a certificate of energy project of national
significance (CEPNS) is the 1,338-megawatt GNPower Dinginin coal-fired power
project in Mariveles, Bataan.
The US$1.7-billion
coal-fired power project utilizes super critical boiler technology. It is a
joint venture of the Ayala and Aboitiz groups and due for completion next year.
The other projects that were granted certifications as EPNS are RE facilities,
including the 100MW Total Power, Inc. facility in Sarangani province; and the
6MW Pangasinan Green Atom waste-to-energy venture.
It is the hope of
project sponsors that permitting processes on their proposed installations be
streamlined and fast-tracked if they secure EPNS certification.
For NGCP, roughly 30
transmission line installation and system upgrade projects had been certified
as EPNS, as specified in DOE documents.
These include the
115-kilovolt San Jose transmission line upgrading project; 230kV San
Jose-Quezon (Balintawak) transmission line; 230kV Manila (Navotas) substation;
230kV Pasay substation; Taguig extra-high voltage (EHV) substation; 230kV
Taguig-Taytay transmission line; Marilao extra-high voltage substation; Manila
(Navotas)-Doña Imelda 230kV transmission line; and the 230kV Bataan grid reinforcement
project.
The others are the 500kV Mariveles-Hermosa transmission line; Pagbilao extra
high voltage substation; 500kV Hermosa-San Jose transmission line; 230kV
Tuguegarao-Magapit transmission line; 230kV Calaca-Dasmariñas transmission
line; Tuy 500/230kV substation project-stage 1; 500kV Western backbone stage 1;
Batangas-Mindoro interconnection; 230kV Ambuklao-Binga 230kV transmission line
upgrading; and 230kV Binga-San Manuel transmission line.
The longer list also
include the 230kV Nagsaag-San Manuel transmission line; 500kV Pagbilao-Tayabas
transmission line; 69kV Hermosa-Floridablanca transmission line; 230kV Calamba
substation; 69kV Clark-Mabiga transmission line; 230kV Tanauan substation; 69kV
Concepcion-Sta. Ignacia transmission line; 69kV Nagsaag-Tumana transmission
line; 230kV San Simon substation; and 230kV Pinili substation.
For NPC-sponsored power
projects at its Small Power Utilities Group (SPUG) domain, there are more than
20 proposed installations that secured EPNS certifications.
Many of these power plant ventures are diesel-fired facilities and deployed in
various off-grid areas in the country.
Following the
privatization of its big-ticket power assets, NPC’s main residual function is
to energize heaps of the country’s island-grid and far-flung areas.
Approvals on the new CEPNS ventures had been from November 27 last year to January 16, 2019, according to documents released by the energy department.
Approvals on the new CEPNS ventures had been from November 27 last year to January 16, 2019, according to documents released by the energy department.
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