Danessa Rivera (The Philippine Star)
- September 30, 2019 - 12:00am
MANILA, Philippines — The National
Grid Corp. of the Philippines (NGCP) is putting up a new substation in Pasay
City worth nearly P13 billion to meet the ever growing power requirements in
the southern part of Metro Manila.
NGCP’s proposed construction of the
Pasay 230-kilovolt (kv) Substation was cleared by the Energy Regulatory
Commission (ERC).
The new substation, to be located
within the reclamation area in Pasay City, had an estimated project cost of
P13.02 billion, but the ERC approved a lower cost at P12.92 billion.
It would be connected to the Luzon
grid through the Las Piñas 230-kv Substation through a nine-kilometer
underground transmission line, which would corner P8.64 billion of the total
project cost.
NGCP said the project aims to
address the lack of N-1 contingency of the 18-year old Las Piñas Substation and
to meet future capacity expansion in the area.
This as the capacity of its existing
Muntinlupa and Las Piñas substations in the area cannot be expanded due to
limited space.
“The proposed project, among others,
aims to cater to the load growth in Metro Manila, relieve the heavy loading of
transformers at the Las Piñas 230-kv substation during single outage (N-1)
contingency, and to provide for a bigger room for future capacity expansion,”
it said.
The new Pasay substation would serve
as a new drawdown substation “to provide for a bigger room for expansion of
capacity for future load growth as well as the improvement of voltage
regulation to the underlying 115-kv substation of Manila Electric Co.
(Meralco).”
