Philippines

First phase has entered commercial operation.

With a growing population projected to reach 100 million and a sustained economic boom, the need for new power generation in the Philippines is as obvious as the threats of blackouts.

Thanks to better FIT guidelines.

The OWL Group is the only truly ASEAN high end power engineering consultancy company having been established in Thailand and expanded into the Philippines.

The OWL Group is the only truly ASEAN high end power engineering consultancy company having been established in Thailand and expanded into the Philippines. By staff numbers OWL is the third largest company in our sector in ASEAN. OWL is named after the bird of wisdom and provides the wisdom to develop projects in a safe, environmentally friendly and cost effective manner.

Prospects for nuclear power are impressive, and it is a positive moment for Asia. Let's start with the fact that nuclear power is really one of the most environmentally friendly: during normal operation, the environmental impact of nuclear power plants is three times less than that of the traditionally popular thermal power plants. 

International Energy Agency sees RE as an alternative energy source.

It’s Gamesa’s first Philippine contract.

Project completion slated in five years’ time.

Plant part of the solution to the city’s power crisis.

Solar farm will be located in Negros Occidental province. German solar firm Conergy AG has won a contract from San Carlos Solar Energy to build a 22 MW solar power plant in San Carlos City, Negros Occidental in the Visayas region south of Manila.

Construction could begin by mid-2014. London-based Advanced Plasma Power Ltd., a waste-to-energy developer, intends to build a US$323 million waste-to-energy power plant at a still undetermined location. The plant will have a capacity of 60 MW. The company is negotiating with the operator of a landfill site.

This US$3.7 million project will be completed in three years. Bank of the Philippine Islands will enter into a build-operate-transfer agreement for the installation of solar panels at 400 of its branches nationwide. It will partner with Solarus Partners for the solar project, the first of its kind by a Philippine bank. Its branches at Ayala Avenue in Makati City and the town of Cainta in Metro Manila have been equipped with 5 KW solar panels. BPI expects to have half its branches fitted with solar panels that can produce 20 KW of power or 40% of its monthly electricity consumption.

Five-year project will cost US$1.25 billion. The National Grid Corporation of the Philippines will start by improving the transmission facilities of the 75 MW Ambuklao hydroelectric dam built in 1950 and the 132 MW Binga hydroelectric dam built in 1956. NGCP said the transmission development plan plans to increase the amount of electricity distributed by the Luzon grid from 7,969 MW in 2011 to 11,165 MW in 2021. Metro Manila consumes 74% or 8,305 MW of the 11,165 MW of electricity channeled daily through the Luzon grid. The plan intends to modernize the high-power voltage lines of the Ambuklao and Binga dams and the transmission lines connecting Binga to San Manuel, Pangasinan, and to La Trinidad, Benguet.

Region will be comparable to China and India. The International Energy Agency said people may be talking about Southeast Asia as the next emerging market for energy, just as people have been talking about China and India. has a combined population of about 600 million. Together, the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), China and India are really gradually shifting the center of gravity of the global energy market towards Asia, IEA said. ASEAN economies are expected to diversify their energy sources to include more clean energies with natural gas as an important option.

Kepco, Mitsui and Mitsubishi studying opportunities.