Pagbilao power station
{{#badges:CoalSwarm|Navbar-Philippinescoal}}Pagbilao power station is a 1,155-megawatt (MW) coal-fired power station in Quezon Province, Philippines.
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Location
The map below shows the plant, in Ibabang Polo Barangay, Pagbilao Municipality, Quezon Province, on Pagbilao Grande Island.
Background on Plant
The two-unit, 735-MW Pagbilao coal-fired power plant was completed in 1996. The plant is owned by Team Energy, a joint venture of Japanese companies Tokyo Electric Power Company and Marubeni Corporation.[1][2]
Description of Expansion
In March 2012, Team Energy and the Aboitiz Group announced that they would partner on an additional 420-MW coal-fired unit at Pagbilao. The unit would run on lower-quality Philippine or Indonesian coal.[3] In 2013, Team Energy announced that Marubeni, one of its two owners, would handle engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC).[4]
Environmental permits were issued in June 2013.[5] In June 2014, the plant's owners announced that Japan's Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems and Korea's Daelim Industrial would be constructing the plant.[6] In June 2014, First Gen, a subsidiary of First Philippine Holdings Corporation, announced that it was considering buying a stake in the project.[7] Ground was broken on the project in July 2014.[5] Total cost of the project will be $976 million, and the plant is expected to be completed in Q2 2017.[8]
In September 2017, Aboitiz announced that the plant had been tested up to its 420 MW capacity and that it would begin commercial operations by the end of the year.[9]
In January 2018 it was reported Unit 3 was still in the testing phase, and would begin operations in February 2018.[10] On February 27, 2018, the Pagbilao council issued a cease-and-desist order (CDO) against Unit 3 because its owners had not signed a memorandum of understanding on corporate social responsibility (CSR) which, according to Aboitiz, would have required expenditures of "an amount above the company’s approved budget for CSR."[11] The Pagbilao council lifted the CDO on March 7, 2018, and Unit 3 went into commercial operation.[12]
Project Details for Unit 3 Expansion
- Sponsor: Team Energy and Therma Power
- Parent company: Tokyo Electric Power Company, Marubeni Corporation, and Aboitiz Group
- Location: Ibabang Polo Barangay, Pagbilao Municipality, Quezon Province, Philippines
- Coordinates: 13.8932, 121.745 (exact)
- Status: Operating
- Gross Capacity: 420 MW
- Type: Supercritical
- Projected in service: 2018
- Coal Type: Low-quality coal from Philippines/Indonesia[3]
- Coal Source:
- Source of financing: 70% bank loans; 30% equity[4]: Banco De Oro (BDO), Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI), China Bank, First Metro Investment Corporation (FIC), PNB Capital, Philippine Savings Bank (PSB), and SB Capital Investment Corporation (SBC) (US$750 million total)[13]
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References
- ↑ Pagbilao Coal Power Plant Philippines, Global Energy Observatory, accessed May 2012
- ↑ "Coal-Fired Plants Financed by International Public Investment Institutions Since 1994", Appendix to Foreclosing the Future: Coal, Climate and International Public Finance: Investment in coal-fired power plants hinders the fight against global warming, Environmental Defense, April 2009.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Añonuevo, Euan. Team Energy, Aboitiz Power to expand Pagbilao plant capacity. InterAksyon, 30 Mar. 2012.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Pagbilao plant to add 400MW capacity," Rappler, September 29, 2013
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Private Sector Initiated Power Projects (Luzon), Philippines Department of Energy, 30 Sept. 2014.
- ↑ MHPS wins coal-fired power plant construction contract from Pagbilao Energy, power-technology.com, 3 June 2014.
- ↑ First Gen Eyes Stake in Pagbilao Coal-fired Power Plant in Quezon, Philippines, Mining Connection, 11 June 2014.
- ↑ Pagbilao expansion to cost nearly $1B, MSN News, 11 Sept. 2014.
- ↑ Pagbilao coal plant tests full capacity, Manila Standard, 17 Sep 2017.
- ↑ "Pagbilao Energy set to operate $1-b coal-fired power plant in February," Manila Standard, January 02, 2018
- ↑ PAGBILAO GETS COURT REPRIEVE TO PROCEED WITH POWER PLANT, Department of Energy, Mar. 21, 2018
- ↑ Philippines’ Pagbilao Coal-fired Thermal Power Plant Starts Commercial Operations, Power Links, Mar. 15, 2018
- ↑ "Pagbilao Power Plant Expansion," Power Technology, accessed May 2018
