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By Myrna M. Velasco
The first phase auction
for renewable energy (RE) capacities in compliance to the Renewable Portfolio
Standards (RPS) will focus on the 380 megawatts of stranded solar and 100 MW
biomass installations.
According to National
Renewable Energy Board (NREB) Chairperson Monalisa Dimalanta, the
RPS-underpinned bidding for stranded RE capacities is targeted either October
or November this year.
“We’re really aiming it this year – it will be a cascading one,” she said,
noting that the order of priority shall first be with the stranded capacities;
then the next phase will be the projects that had been given certificate of
commerciality (COC) by the Department of Energy.
For the first round of
auction, she said that the total capacity shall be for 1,000 megawatts
equivalent – out of the 2,000MW that the government has been aiming for RPS
compliance starting year 2020.
“For biomass, most
likely the stranded capacity is 100MW; then solar could be 380MW,” the NREB
chairperson emphasized.
But she indicated that
the initial bidding will be more than that – especially since so the basis of
auction will be on megawatt-hours; which means that it shall be the actual
energy that the RE plant could deliver on the off-take (capacity purchase) that
a distribution utility (DU) shall be having to comply with the RPS.
“If you based it on
capacity, that will be more than 1,000MW – because solar for example, the
capacity factor at best is just 20%. And we want to do it megawatt-hour,
because generation is the language of compliance in RPS,” Dimalanta explained.
She added that for
first compliance under the RPS – that will be for December 2020, “and the DUs
need to do their compliance plan effective next year, hence, we need to align
our plans with that.”
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