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The Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management
Corp. said the supply contract it will attach to National Power
Corp.’s Calaca power plant may be similar to that of the Masinloc
coal-fired power plant.
“We have yet to agree on the
volume of transition supply to be attached to the Calaca. But based
on the framework that we’re working on, it will be more or less
the same as we did for the Masinloc,” Froilan A. Tampinco, PSALM
vice-president for Asset Management and Electricity Trading, said.
The 600-megawatt (MW) Calaca
facility is the second coal-fired power plant to be auctioned off by
PSALM this year after the 600-MW Masinloc plant, which drew a lot of
bidders.
PSALM and Napocor earlier agreed
to attach 265 MW or about 50 percent of the 550-MW dependable
capacity of Masinloc, which would assure a ready market Calaca’s
output. The plan now is to offer almost the same capacity as
Masinloc’s in the supply contract for the Calaca plant.
“But it may no longer just be
non-Meralco off-takers; it may have to include a portion of Meralco
this time,” Tampinco said.
The coal-fired plant in Barangay
San Rafael in Calaca, Batangas, consists of two 300-MW generating
units, which were commissioned on September 11, 1984 and July 15,
1995. Primarily designed to run as a base-load plant, the Calaca
facility can operate as a network-frequency regulating plant at a
minimum stable load of 150 MW per unit. Both units are also designed
for plant redundancy, which means that one unit can undergo
maintenance without affecting the plant’s full output.
PSALM is set to hold the Calaca
facility’s prebid Conference with qualified participants on July
18, 2007 at its main office in Makati City.
--Euan Paulo C. Añonuevo
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