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Publish Date : 30-Mar-2016

Palm Concepcion Power Corp., possessor of the 270-megawatt coal-fired power plant in Iloilo region, will provide 135 MW or 50% of its yield to the Visayas grid by late next month.

Palm Concepcion said in an announcement the plant might commence delivering power to customers in Panay, Negros and the remaining Visayas once it synchronized its operations with National Grid Corp. of the Philippines.

The firm said the Concepcion-Barotac 138 kV transmission line, comprising the new Concepcion 138kV GIS Substation and the increment of Barotac Viejo Substation constructed by Palm Concepcion, were now energized.

Palm Concepcion president and chief executive Roel Castro said, The immediate completion of the associated transmission facilities can be attributed to the hard work of the whole Transmission Line team of PCPC and the dedicated effort and full support that NGCP extended to us.

Castro said one more factor that contributed to the rapid finishing of the transmission lines was the early settlement of the transmission lines right-of-way.

He said, We made sure that all those affected by the construction of the transmission facilities were compensated accordingly and that all documentary requirements are in place for the proper turn-over of these transmission assets to NGCP.

The firm is slated to have its reliability tests run in the next couple of months.

The initial 135-MW unit of Palm Concepcion will be in complete commercial operations once the test runs are finished.

Senior Vice President for project development group Winifredo Pangilinan said, The schedule of the commercial operations is just right on track as what we have committed to our customers.

Ten distribution utilities and electric cooperatives have inked supply contracts with Palm Concepcion for their baseload power needs.

NLSC, the consortium of First Northeast Electric Power Engineering Corp. of China, Liaoning Electric Power Survey & Design Institute and Shenyang Electric Power Design Institute Co., Ltd. was tapped as the projects general engineering, procurement and construction contractor.

Alstom Power of Europe, one of the globe's foremost providers of steam turbines and power production device, delivered the steam turbine and generator for the project, while SNC-Lavalin was the project construction manager.

Palm Concepcion is a joint venture (JV) of Palm Thermal Consolidated Holdings Corp. and Jin Navitas Resource Inc.

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