By
Lenie Lectura - November 22, 2019
THE National Grid Corp.
of the Philippines (NGCP) has programmed P463 billion worth of transmission
projects for the next 10 years, higher than the P151-billion transmission
projects invested in the past decade.
These projects, set to
be completed in the coming years, include the 500 kV Substation Projects
(Taguig and Marilao) and 230 kV Substation Projects (Pasay, Navotas
and Antipolo), which intend to fill the load growth of Metro Manila; the
Cebu—Bohol 230 kV Interconnection Project, to accommodate the load growth of
and provide reliability to Bohol Island; the Nabas-Caticlan-Boracay
Interconnection Project, which intends to accommodate the load growth of and
provide reliability to Boracay Island; the Visayas Voltage Improvement Project,
to improve the power quality in Visayas; the Mindanao 230 kV backbone project,
to upgrade the region’s transmission capacity and secure the reliability of
power transmission services throughout the island; the Mindanao Substation
Upgrading Project, to increase the substation capacity and improve power
quality; and the Kabacan 138 kV Substation Project, to enhance power
reliability in southwestern Mindanao.
“An estimated total
investment worth P463 billion is programmed for the next 10 years,” said
the grid operator.
These are priority
projects meant to improve transmission backbones and alternative
transmission corridors, and to develop resiliency policies for power
transmission facilities, said NGCP.
MVIP on track
The grid operator,
meanwhile, is on-track to complete the Mindanao-Visayas Interconnection Project
(MVIP), considered as the largest energy infrastructure in the history of the
country.
“We are dedicated to
completing the MVIP by December 2020, not only because we committed this, but
also because interconnection among the three main grids is long overdue. The
interconnection of Visayas and Mindanao was first proposed by government in
1984; but it was private-entity NGCP which brought the government’s decades-old
plan from the feasibility stage to the implementation and completion stage,” it
said.
“Our projects, which
will be worth P188 billion by end of 2019, and those in the pipeline, are
meticulously planned by our engineers and updated year after year with careful
consideration for the needs of every single area in the country,” NGCP added.
For the past 10 years,
NGCP has invested P151 billion into the government’s aging transmission system.
The amount included a
total of 5,626 transmission structures, 2,472 circuit-kilometers
of transmission lines, 18 new substations, 63 upgraded
substations and an additional 15,634 MVA of transformer capacity.
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