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BY MAE SINGUAY
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BACOLOD City – Energreen Power Development and Management, Inc. is using secondhand engines for its diesel power plant in Bago City, Negros Occidental.
But this does not compromise operations and the power it supplies to Central Negros Electric Cooperative (Ceneco), stressed David Tan, technical consultant for Central Negros Power Reliability, Inc. (Cenpri), Energreen’s project implementer.
Reporters toured the plant in Barangay Calumangan on Thursday.
Energreen and Ceneco have an 18.9-megawatt (MW), 15-year “peak and reserve” power supply contract.
Brand-new equipment entail higher costs. A similar plant in in Mindanao providing a similar service charges double (P4) Energreen’s capacity rate (P2.10) for using brand-new engines, Tan told the press.
“We feel, strategically, that there is no need to burden the consumers with brand-new equipment because [a secondhand one] works,” said Tan.
Energreen has “not failed Ceneco” in terms power delivery over the past six months, he said. “When we are called to run, [our engines are] running.”
The power supplier has been delivering 12.6 MW since May last year — 6.3 MW short of the contracted supply.
This is because only three engines are currently operational, Tan explained.
Energreen is waiting for an operating permit from the Energy Regulatory Commission for Engine No. 4, he said.
Tan said the whole plant costs “about P1.05 billion.”
Energreen so far spent P960 million. “The remaining cost is for the engine pipe, which is our spare engine, the remaining requirement of the National Grid Corp. of the Philippines, and more civil works,” he said./PN
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