Energy, Power, and Utilities Industry

[mahadlikha]

FREE Space Age technology to Humanity:

[louiegi]

Originally Posted by Parchie

Basically, the only way to entice investments in RE is thru a higher than usual FIT rate. Wind power, being built mostly near seashores are made expensive due to the amount of technology poured into making the equipment parts that can withstand the elements. That said, coupled with the cost of borrowed money, all those problems mentioned eats up a large portion of revenue generated from the supposedly "free energy" it collects from the wind!

If the wind power plant cannot generate enough revenue to pay those financing cost + maintenance + operational costs, it has to stop operations. The revenue being kW-Hrs generated X FIT rate! Which one will the decision-makers choose?

then this doesn't seemed to sound good, RE-wise

http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/367584...s#.UIZCh2ez7To

ERC Approves Lower FIT Rates
By MYRNA M. VELASCO
July 27, 2012, 5:12pm

MANILA, Philippines — Although they were set by the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) at rates lower than expected by project developers, the much-awaited decision on the feed-in-tariffs (FITs) for renewable energy (RE) developments was finally out.

The approved FITs are: P9.68 per kilowatt-hour (kWh for solar which is lower than the P17.95 per kWh applied for by the National Renewable Energy Board (NREB); P8.53 per kWh for wind from the applied rate of P10.37 per kWh; P6.63 per kWh for biomass from P7.00 per kWh; and P5.90 per kWh for hydro from P6.15 per kWh.

[amigo32]

yeah wind power is just too costly. a 500w(small) wind turbine setup will cost me more than 200k including the tower.


a 100w solar setup will cost me more than 35k


a pico hydro power is a bit cheaper at 27k excluding the deep cycle batteries (if you want to store energy.)

still i would like to have an RE at home.

For now my elex bill varies from 2,200 to 2,900. I am living in a remote place malayo sa city

[Monchhichi]

Philippine president to meet US official over nuclear programme
Manila (Philippine Daily Inquirer/ANN) - Philippine President Benigno Aquino III will receive US Sen. Richard Lugar who is on a tour of the Asia-Pacific region to drum up support for his nuclear threat reduction programme.
Lugar, who was to arrive in Manila yesterday for a four-day visit, is scheduled to meet with Aquino in the Palace tomorrow, as well as with Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario and other government officials.
"The advisory relayed to us is that by Monday, he will be received by the President," Undersecretary Abigail Valte, deputy presidential spokesperson, said over government radio.
The US Embassy said the Philippines was one of the stops on Lugar's tour that is meant to "encourage the expansion" of the Nunn-Lugar Global Cooperative Threat Reduction programme.
The programme is focused on reducing the stockpiles of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, related materials and delivery systems in nations around the world to address the proliferation threat.
In the embassy statement, Lugar said that cooperation was crucial to identifying and interdicting the flow of weapons of mass destruction through Southeast Asia, which he said was a major intersection of global trade and commerce by water and air.
The most senior Republican in the US Senate, Lugar led efforts "at reducing the threat of nuclear weapons around the world and decreasing US dependence on foreign sources of oil," the embassy said.
In time for Aquino's visit to the United States last June, the US Senate passed Resolution No. 481 calling for increased defence and security cooperation with the Philippines. The measure was sponsored by Lugar in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the Mutual Defence Treaty between the two countries.
Lugar, now 80, also played a key role in the Philippines' tumultuous transition to democracy in 1986.
He had led the delegation of international observers that monitored and subsequently denounced the fraud-marred snap election between then dictator Ferdinand Marcos and Corazon Aquino, the President's mother, in February 1986.
Lugar, although a Republican, ended up publicly disagreeing with party mate and then US President Ronald Reagan, who had initially said that poll irregularities had occurred on both sides.
With a report from Jerome Aning.
http://ph.news.yahoo.com/philippine-...053007143.html

[Parchie]

Originally Posted by louiegi

then this doesn't seemed to sound good, RE-wise

http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/367584...s#.UIZCh2ez7To

You might have predicted future brakes on projects being mulled by other investors here! For one, I've read there are sectors opposing the Bangui Bay Wind Power from even availing of the FIT rate that was issued out recently. Perhaps people could be informed that these "free energy" are "not free" in reality.

[Monchhichi]

Petilla urges private sector to build more power plants
MANILA, Philippines - Stabilizing power supply, especially in Mindanao, tops new Energy chief Jericho Petilla's agenda as he buckles down to work in the Department of Energy.

"The first order of the day while I'm on my learning curve is tackling the issue on Mindanao... There is a shortage simply because the plants are not in their optimal level," he said on ANC's Headstart.

Petilla said there is a P3-billion plan to desilt certain areas, the region's flood control system and maximize the Pulangi river to generate hydro power.

"Right now the Pulangui plant is rated at 240 MW but its only operating at 125... But even if you did fix the river, if you don't have the rains you still have a problem," he said.

Petilla notes majority of power plants in the south are still being run by the government and the supply is not enough to meet demand.

The new DOE chief believes the private sector should step in and help build new power plants.

"If we want to have stable electricity, if we want it to be sustainable, then we can't rely on the government subsidy. We need the help of the private sector. They're not doing it for charity. there's a cost involved," Petilla said.

"We have to contend with the fact that we cannot relyon these plants... We need to build oil-based and coal (plants)... We have to put a balance between environment and electricity."

Petilla added he is open to tapping nuclear power to augment the country's energy supply, but clarifies reviving the mothballed Bataan Nuclear Power Plant is out of the question.

A new nuclear power plant has to be built, which could take three to five years or well beyond the Aquino administration.

"If you can only see what I'm seeing right now, you'll be open to any options you have... We're looking at stability and price, the end-user is what we're after... You'll need to put up a new plant. The existing one has been condemned as far as I'm concerned," he said.

The former Leyte governor has his hands full. Aside from power outages in Mindanao, he also has to find a way to bring down power rates, which are among the highest in Asia.

But Petilla dismisses proposals for the government to subsidize power rates, saying he prefers to pursue a free market economy, wherein prices are determined by supply and demand.

"I still believe that free market is the way to go but there has to be some controls also. That's why DOE is there even if it's headed toward a free market access system, there has to be some regulation," he said.

Petilla admits he has a long way to go.

But as an outsider looking in, he's hopeful of finding long-term solutions to challenges facing the power sector.
http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/business/...e-power-plants

[guitarose]

Groundbreaking of the 20MW Solar Power Plant in Ilocos Norte

Originally Posted by 808 state

by Imee Marcos

[Monchhichi]

Power firms sign MOU for 9.6-MW power plant in Mindanao
A Brown Company Inc. has signed a memorandum of understanding with South Cotabato II Electric Cooperative, Inc. for the installation of a 9.6-megawatt bunker-fired power plant in electricity-deficient southern Mindanao.

"Both parties also see the urgency of setting up a new power facility as there is no new large generating capacity scheduled to come online in the Mindanao grid in the next three years," said A Brown in a statement.

South Cotabato Electric II distributes electricity to General Santos City, South Cotabato and Sarangani. Because of the deficiency in power supply in the region, it has had to implement a load dropping and/or rotating brownout schedule in its franchise area.

Under the memorandum, both parties will negotiate the final terms of the supply, installation and operation of the facility within 90 days.

South Cotabato Electric II president Elenito Senit and A Brown vice president for business development Roel Castro signed the memorandum.

Through its subsidiary Palm Thermal Consolidated Holdings, A Brown will also build a 135-MW coal-fired power plant project in Iloilo.
http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story...nt-in-mindanao

[louiegi]

Ilocos Norte is robust in its RE endeavor. Kudos to Gov. Marcos

[calaguyo]

I should have taken photos of those huge solar panels I saw when I was in Taiwan.

[mahadlikha]

Originally Posted by louiegi

Ilocos Norte is robust in its RE endeavor. Kudos to Gov. Marcos

Not pro-Marcos but admirably yes to Ms. Imee, unlike Noynoy & the Yellows into coal obviously to profiteer consumers in its primary agenda. Wait till PEAK COAL skyrockets prices up to 600% and RE energy sources become more cost efficient by 2015 than already expensive coal

not to mention the environmental repercussion in the critical period of Climate Change as even its hyped "clean coal" tech is yet to be proven for 25 years

[Monchhichi]

Mindanao's future flows with hydropower
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, Philippines - Because Mindanao’s power sources are mainly hydro-based, its energy rate is lower by 30-40 percent than the mixed generation costs of Luzon and Visayas. This is why Mindanao residents are against the sale of the Agus-Pulangi hydropower complex, which supplies more than 50 percent of the island’s total requirements.

Led by Sec. Luwalhati Antonino of the Mindanao Development Authority, hydropower advocates are urging the Department of Energy (DOE) to “go with the flow” and help keep Mindanao’s competitive advantage by developing more hydropower plants because of the abundance of water sources in the island.

Mindanao has a total potential of 2,519.29 megawatts from hydro sources as against the 1,163.30 from coal, according to the Philippine Energy Plan (PEP) 2003-2012.

Region X or Northern Mindanao leads the region with 958.40 MW of potential hydropower, followed by Region XII with 719.69 MW.

Other regions’ hydro potentials are as follows:

- Caraga, 288.09 MW;

- Region XI, 259.64 MW;

- ARMM, 232.65 MW; and

- Region IX, 60.82 MW.
http://www.interaksyon.com/business/...ith-hydropower

[Monchhichi]

Nat'l Grid continues expansion despite PH-China rift
CEBU, Philippines - While the Philippines is still locked in a territorial dispute with China, the partly-Chinese owned National Grid Corporation of the Philippines is still expanding.

State Grid Corp. of China holds a 40% stake in the consortium, which includes the group of Henry Sy, Jr. and Roberto Coyuito's Calaca High Power, each with 30% control of NGCP.

"Like any investor, they are entitled to a seat at the board and provide direction... The company is very apolitical. We make sure we are complying with the laws," Atty. Cynthia Alabanza, NGCP spokesperson, said.

In September, Interior Secretary Mar Roxas called on China to turn over control and cascade technology transfer to Filipinos.

But in a recent facility visit for media hosted by NGCP, Filipino engineers, may coming from the old Napocor and National Transmission Corp., appeared to be in control of the country's electricity highway.

While the chief technical officer is Chinese coming from the China State Grid, majority of the officers working on the technical side are still Filipinos.

"The people on the ground are managers, also Filipinos, people who run it... The concession is designed in such a way that if there's a change in ownership, the operations on a day-to-day basis on the ground will be unimpeded and continue without interruption," Alabanza said.

For the current regulatory period which will last until 2015, the NGCP is spending P55 billion for rehabilitation and upgrading of transmission cables in order to maximize the delivery of electricity on all segments of the grid.

The consortium has obtained a 25-year concession agreement to manage the transmission lines with an option to extend for another 25 years once the first contract ends in 2034.
http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/business/...-ph-china-rift

[TheAvenger]

14th Nov. 2012














































http://www.cneec.com.cn/Achievements...1006/1032.html


I am wondering why our bright boys in the Industry and the Government permitted the building of an Electric Power Plant on the vulnerable location in Mariveles, Bataan just half-mile from the busy shipping lane – Traffic Separation Zone of Corregidor’s North Channel. It could have been built further east from Limay Bataan.

It will be very difficult to secure these Power Plant in case of war with an aggressive neighboring country since this site is located adjacent to a very busy shipping traffic lane. Once the Coal-powered Electric Power Plant is in full operation then the new Pier adjacent to the Power Plant will be used by vessels carrying coal cargo for the power plant, then the maneuvering of the vessel that will dock on the power plant’s pier will disturb the traffic flow in North Channel especially the pier was just half mile from the edge of the Traffic Separation Zone.

The Mariveles Power Plant is built by PRC Chinese company, the China National Electric Engineering Co. Ltd. Why our government allowed PRC China company to participate in the building or also in the operation of the mentioned Power Plant when PRC China is our country’s potential enemy in the future owing to their occupation of some of our islands and reefs in the West Philippine Sea.

China's aggresion in Scarborough Shoal
http://jibraelangel2blog.blogspot.jp...resion-in.html



Related postings about the Mariveles Power Plant :


Port of Mariveles and the coal-run Power Plant in Mariveles, Bataan
http://jibraelangel2blog.blogspot.jp...wer-plant.html




Photo Journal of Corregidor's North and South Channel
http://jibraelangel2blog.blogspot.jp...north-and.html



Mariveles 2x300MW Thermo-Power Plant, Philippines
http://www.cneec.com.cn/Achievements...1006/1032.html





http://saveourearthsaveourhome.blogs...wer-plant.html

[Nabartek]

Naku baka kapag may away nanamans a territoryo eh ipatigil nila ang power production (in case matuloy)

[TheAvenger]

Please see other photos of this PRC Chinese-built Power Plant in the below web link :

http://www.timawa.net/forum/index.php?topic=26464.0


http://jibraelangel2blog.blogspot.jp...wer-plant.html


http://jibraelangel2blog.blogspot.jp...linked-to.html

[Monchhichi]

DOE lights up $45-M energy efficiency project
By Neil Jerome C. Morales (The Philippine Star) | Updated December 2, 2012 - 12:00am
MANILA, Philippines - Communities in off-grid or far-flung areas are expected to become more energy efficient in their lighting and power generation systems as part of a $45-million lighting project.

The Department of Energy (DOE) said it has partnered with the private sector, local government units and power distributors for the Philippine Energy Efficiency Project (PEEP) in off-grid communities.

Under the National Residential Lighting subcomponent of the PEEP, solar-powered light emitting diodes were installed in off-grid areas nationwide.

“The program aims to demonstrate efficient lighting system and technologies to reduce peak electricity demand thus, reducing energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions,” DOE said.

“We will be able to save 10,704 liters a year of kerosene and an emission reduction of 15,502 kilograms of carbon dioxide,” said PEEP project director and DOE Undersecretary Loreta G. Ayson.

To date, 223 households in off-grid areas in Aklan, Antique, Palawan, Davao del Norte have already benefited from the project.
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The DOE tapped TeaM Energy Foundation Inc., the local governments of Aklan, Antique, Palawan, and Davao Del Norte, and distributors Palawan Electric Cooperative Inc., Aklan Electric Cooperative Inc. and Davao Del Norte Electric Cooperative Inc. for the project.

“Through this project, identified beneficiaries will be able to utilize safer and more environment-friendly alternatives in lighting their homes,” DOE said.

Ayson said the project can also help reduce fire-related accidents because highly-combustible kerosene will no longer be used in homes.

The PEEP is an initiative of the Asian Development Bank, which granted the country a loan of $31.1 million. The government provided $13.9 million as counterpart financing.

In general, the PEEP targets to reduce the cost of energy production through the use of energy-efficient appliances, adoption of energy-saving measures in buildings and improvement of equipment testing facilities.

Early this year, the DOE signed an agreement with 56 agencies from the National Capital Region, Southern Tagalog and Bicol for a retrofitting of lighting systems in government buildings.

As of February, the DOE has helped in the retrofitting of 35 government buildings with the aim of reducing energy consumption by 1.37 gigawatt-hours worth P13.7 million annually.

http://www.philstar.com/business/201...ciency-project

[xxxriainxxx]

PetroEnergy Unit Signs Transmission Line Construction Deal With AKELCO

November 29, 2012
PetroGreen Energy Corporation (PGEC), the 100%-owned subsidiary of publicly-listed PetroEnergy Resources Corporation (PERC) entered into a Heads of Agreement (HOA) on 28 November 2012 with Aklan Electric Cooperative, Inc. (AKELCO) for the construction of the transmission line of PGEC’s 50 MW Nabas Wind Power Project. The project, being developed by PGEC under the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Service Contract 2009-09-002, is centered in the municipality of Nabas in Aklan province where AKELCO is the electricity distribution franchise holder.



The HOA was signed by PGEC Vice President (VP) F.G. Delfin Jr. and AKELCO General Manager (GM) Chito R. Peralta and witnessed by Aklan Governor Carlito Marquez and Nabas Mayor Romeo Dalisay. The agreement will eventually lead to a construction contract where PGEC engages AKELCO to erect the single-circuit 69kV overhead interconnection line based on engineering design and transmission line components furnished by PGEC. The signing followed the approval and release on August 2012 of the Nabas system impact study by the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) stipulating the connection scheme for Nabas and PGEC’s filing for commerciality declaration of the project with the DOE on September 10, 2012.



PGEC VP Delfin declared, “The interconnection distance between the Nabas wind farm in Barangay Pawa and the NGCP-approved connection point near Unidos, Aklan is less than 10 km. Among several wind projects awaiting commerciality declaration by the DOE, this makes the Nabas project quite likely the one with the shortest transmission line requirement which should translate to faster project construction completion.” AKELCO GM Peralta welcomed the construction and operation of the Nabas project saying that it is consistent with AKELCO’s goals of seeing more generation facilities to be put up in Aklan to increase power supply in the province and for AKELCO to provide services to these power companies. Speaking for the host LGUs, Aklan Governor Marquez stated, “The Nabas project is a testament to the continuing economic growth of Aklan province and Panay island as a whole, which for a long time suffered from underdevelopment. Equally important, the development and operation of Nabas wind power project is consistent with the province’s recent resolution of harnessing renewable energy for new power plants to be erected in the province. We also anticipate that Nabas will further maximize the eco-tourism potential of the province with the wind farm being near Boracay island.”



Subject to the commerciality declaration and MW allocation for the project, PGEC intends to start initial development works in Nabas by 2013 with a mid-2014 target for commercial operations. Along with the commercial start of the 20 MW Maibarara geothermal project in late 2013 and the expected increase in daily oil production from the Etame oilfields in Gabon by 2015, these projects will ensure new and steady revenues for both PGEC and PERC.

http://petroenergy.com.ph/news/petro...l-with-akelco/

[Kim Bol Jon]

P5-B wind energy farm takes shape in Camarines Sur
Philippine Daily Inquirer
7:23 pm | Saturday, January 12th, 2013

A wind energy farm is set to rise in Camarines Sur that is expected to generate at least 60 megawatts of electricity and generate green jobs for the province that officials said they hoped to turn into the greenest in the country in terms of energy generation and use.

In a statement, Gov. Luis “LRay” Villafuerte Jr. said the wind energy farm is seen to draw in as much as P5 billion in investments into the province.

The governor said work on the project had started with the putting up of a meteorological tower at the project site.

He said the provincial government had also commissioned a study on green energy production and results are encouraging.

The study points to the availability of sources of biomass energy in the province. These could produce up to 75 MW of electricity from biomass plants and 11 MW from biogas plants, said Villafuerte.

The amount of energy from these sources could more than make up for an increase in power demand in Camarines Sur that is seen to rise to 22 MW until 2018.

Villafuerte said the province had also started putting up a 100-hectare bamboo plantation that would provide fuel for a power plant that could generate up to 25 MW more of electricity. The plantation could expand to 3,000 ha, he said.

Read more

[nayki]

Hanjin threatens to cut down operations

SUBIC BAY FREEPORT—Thousands of workers of a Korean shipbuilder may lose their jobs because of the European financial crisis and the government’s failure to make good on its commitment to provide power incentives, a top official of the company said.

Taek Yun Yoo, general manager of the Hanjin Heavy Industries & Construction Co. Ltd.-Philippines Inc. (HHIC-Philippines), said the combination of a dearth of orders for huge ships in the international market and the Aquino administration’s failure to honor commitments made by the Philippine government to the Korean shipbuilder had “brought us to this situation where we may have to lose thousands of workers this year because our expenses have gone up (substantially).”

“We’ve been promised these incentives with other multinational companies by the previous administration, and that’s the only reason we chose to locate in this country instead of somewhere else,” Yoo said.

Under the administration of former President Arroyo, Hanjin, through subsidiary Phoenix Semiconductors, was given incentives under the 10-year Industry Competitiveness Fund (ICF) program.

The government granted the company and others, including Texas Instruments and Samsung, ICF subsidies to convince them to invest in the country.

In the case of Hanjin, under Executive Order No. 701 issued by Ms. Arroyo in 2008, National Power Corp. and National Transmission Corp. (Transco) provided discounted generation and transmission rates of $0.0491 per kilowatt-hour (kWh) within the first six years of its operations and $0.0600 per kWh from the seventh year until the 10th year of its shipyards in Subic and Mindanao.

“Should the prevailing industrial retail rates decrease to a level lower than the discounted rates agreed and granted by Napocor and Transco, the rates shall be correspondingly decreased to match the prevailing rates,” EO 701 provided.

Yoo said the discounted rate was granted by the Arroyo administration through Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management Corp., with the Sual power plant in Pangasinan designated as the Korean shipbuilder’s power supplier.

http://business.inquirer.net/103023/...own-operations

Pnoy should address this alarming concern as soon as possible.