Coal-Fired Power Plants in the Philippines - other regions

FDC Misamis
Location: Misamis Oriental (N Mindanao)
Operator: FDC Utilities Inc
Mariveles
Configuration: 3 X 135 MW
Location: Bataan (Central Luzon)
Operation: 2016
Operator: GNPower Mariveles Coal Plant Ltd
Fuel: bituminous coal
Configuration: 2 X 300 MW
Malita
Boiler supplier: Shanghai
Operation: 2014
Location: Davao del Sur (Davao)
T/G supplier: Alstom
Fuel: coal
Operator: SMC Global Power Holdings Corp
EPC: First Northeast Electric Power Construction,
Boiler supplier: Harbin
Configuration: 2 X 150 MW
Engineering Equipment Inc.
T/G supplier: Harbin
Operation: 2016
Quick Facts: In Oct 2013, Filinvest awarded
EPC: China National Electric Engineering Co Ltd
Fuel: coal
contracts for the FDC Utilities CFB coal-fired plant
Quick facts: In Feb 2009, GN Power signed an
Boiler supplier: Formosa Heavy Industries
in Mindanao. Groundbreaking on the 84.4ha site
$580mn EPC contract with CNEEC for a pair of
T/G supplier: MHI, Melco
was shortly thereafter. The site is the PHIVIDEC
300-MW conventional coal-fired units for the
EPC: Formosa Heavy Industries
Industrial Estate in Misamis Oriental. President
Mariveles power station on the Bataan Peninsula.
Quick facts: In April 2012, SMC Power secured
Rodrigo Duterte presided at the ceremonial
In Jan 2010, GN Power and partners Sithe Global
permission from DOE to proceed with grid-impact
inauguration of the PHP 30bn project on 22 Sep
and Denham Capital Management closed project
studies (GIS) for six coal-fired power projects
2016. About 85% of the plants capacity is
financing with Chinese and Philippine entities
including this TPP in Brgy Culaman, Malita.
allocated to utilities and large industrial consumers
providing debt. The GNPower Mariveles project
Ground-breaking for the first phase was in Jul
covering 205 municipalities and barangays in
was named "2010 Asia-Pacific Power Deal of the
2013. This is expected to cost P25.8bn. Operation
Mindanao. About 80% of the coal is from Indonesia
Year" by Project Finance International. In 2012,
slipped about a year from mid-2015 to mid-2016.
and the balance is sourced locally. Some 5,000
Ayala Corp announced that it would acquire
people were employed during construction and the
Denham's 17.1% stake for $155mn amd the deal
Photograph courtesy of SMC Global Power Holdings Corp
Posted 29 May 2016
company has 200 regular employees. This is the
closed in Jan 2014. The plant went online that
second coal-fired power plant at the Phividec
same month. Fuel is sourced from Indonesia.
estate following the 210-MW STEAG project built
Photograph courtesy of jibraelangel2blog.blogspot.com
in 2006.
Posted 18 Jan 2016
Photograph courtesy of www.mindanaodailynews.com
Posted 23 Sep 2016

Masinloc
Location: Zambales (Central Luzon)
Operator: Masinloc Power Partners Co Ltd
Configuration: 2 X 330 MW
Operation: 1998-1999
Fuel: coal
Boiler supplier: MHI
T/G supplier: MHI, Melco
EPC: Stone & Webster, Commonwealth
Engineers, MHI
Quick facts: After an international auction process,
PSALM awarded the Masinloc plant to a
consortium of YNN Holdings Corp and Great
Pacific Financial Group for $561.7mn in Dec 2004.
This was the largest Philippine power plant
divesture to that date and the price was both
double the next highest bid and substantially
above the expected bid. In the event, the
consortium could not consummate the sale and the
plant was rebid in Jul 2007 and eventually sold to a
consortium led by AES Corp. Financing closed in
mid-April 2008, with the participation of the ADB,

Mindanao
Naga City-1
Location: Misamis Oriental (N Mindanao)
Location: Cebu (C Visayas)
Operator: STEAG State Power Inc
Operator: Power Sector Assets and Liabilities
Configuration: 2 X 116 MW
Management Corp (PSALM)
Operation: 2006
Configuration: 1 X 50 MW, 1 X 55 MW
Fuel: bituminous coal
Operation: 1981-1986
Boiler supplier: Kawasaki
Fuel: lignite, fuel oil
T/G supplier: Toshiba
Boiler supplier: Stein, Biro
EPC: Kawasaki, Commonwealth Engineers Co
T/G supplier: SGP, Elin
Quick Facts: This plant at the 3,000ha Phivdec
EPC: Doosan, Biro
Industrial Estate in Villanueva near Cagayan de
Quick facts: In 1996, Salcon Power Corp from
Oro City was approved by NPC and PSALM in Sep Singaporesecured a 15yr contract to overhaul and
2003. The lead financing was by Taiwans State
operate NPCs Naga City-1 plant in Barrio Colon,
Investment Trust which has an 11% stake in the
Cebu. In Mar 2012, at the completion of the
project with STEAG taking an 89% stake. The
contract plus an extension, SPC turned the plant
project dates to 1996 when a 25yr PPA was
back over to NPC. PSALM has been trying to
signed. This was formalized in Oct 2001 and in Apr divest the plant ever since. SPC was retained as
2002, Kawasaki was awarded the EPC contract for
plant operator.
the plant, which burns Indonesian coal.
Photograph courtesy of www.interaksyon.com
Construction started in Jan 2004 and the plant cost
Posted 28 Aug 2013
$305mn. Financial close was in Dec 2003 with a
group of lenders including JBIC, Nippon Export

IFC and a syndicate of commercial banks. AES

has made extensive investments to recover lost
capacity and improve plant efficiency and
environmental operations. Masinloc was named a
Power magazine Top Plant in 2011.

and Insurance Corp,and Germanys KfW,

Bayerische Hypo-und Vereinsbank, and Dresdner
Bank.
Photograph courtesy of STEAG
Re-posted 2 Dec 2016

Photograph courtesy of Power

Re-posted 16 Oct 2011

Naga City-2
Location: Cebu (C Visayas)
Operator: Kepco Phillipines Corp
Configuration: 2 X 103 MW
Operation: 2010-2011
Fuel: coal
Boiler supplier: Doosan
T/G supplier: Doosan
EPC: Doosan
Quick facts: In Jun 2004, a 200-MW coal-fired IPP
extension to the 100-MW coal-fired plant at Naga
City, in Cebu was officially launched as a result of
bilateral agreements signed by the Philippine and
Korean governments. Development was by a
60:40 joint venture of Kepco and Salcon Power
Corp from Singapore. The Philippine Board of
Investments approved incentives for the project,
which has two CFB boilers and burns local coal
from Semirara Mining Corp. The project cost an
estimated $278mn.

PEDC
Location: Iloilo (W Visayas)
Operator: Global Business Power Corp
Configuration: 2 X 82 MW
Operation: 2011
Fuel: coal
Boiler supplier: FHI
T/G supplier: Kawasaki, Toshiba MitsubishiElectric Industrial Systems
EPC: FHI
Quick facts: This CFB project in Brgy Ingore
Lapaz, Iloilo City, was built by Panay Energy
Development Corp, a subsidiary of Global
Business Power Corp. It cost PHP 19.9bn and
went commercial on 26 Mar 2011. Electricity is
sold to local coops and Philippine Phosphate
Fertilizer Corp.
Photograph by raymonddeza (Panoramio)
Posted 25 Nov 2012

Photograph courtesy of www.amenews.kr

Re-posted 11 May 2014

SM200
Location: Sarangani (SOCCSKSARGEN)
Operator: Sarangani Energy Corp
Configuration: 1 X 105 MW
Operation: 2016-2018
Fuel: subbituminous coal
Boiler supplier: FW
T/G supplier: Fuji
EPC: Daelim
Quick facts: In Sep 2007, Alcantara Group
announced that it would build a $350mn, 200-MW
coal-fired power plant at Sitio Tampuan, Barangay
Kamanga, Sarangani. In Feb 2009, Kiamba town
leaders passed a resolution supporting the project,
then estimated to cost $450mn. Ground-breaking
was in Dec 2011. In Dec 2012, the structure of
developer Sarangani Energy was formed as a
75:25 JV of Alsons Consolidated and Toyota
Tsusho Corp. That same month, Sarangani Energy
secured a P9.3bn syndicated loan from a
consortium of local banks including BDO Universal
Bank (BDO), Asia United Bank (AUB), Rizal
Commercial Banking Corp, United Coconut
Planters Bank, Philippine Business Bank, Planters
Development Bank, and Robinsons Bank. The joint
lead arrangers for the loan were BDO Capital and
Investment Corporation and RCBC Capital
Corporation with Asia United Bank as Co-Arranger.
The CFB boilers were orderde in Feb 2013 and the
unit wa synchronized in Jan 2016.
Photograph courtesy of Sarangani Energy Corporation
Posted 19 Mar 2016

Therma South Phase I

Location: Davao del Sur (Davao)
Operator: Aboitiz Power Corp
Configuration: 2 X 150 MW
Operation: 2015-2016
Fuel: subbituminous coal
Boiler supplier: Formosa Heavy Industries
T/G supplier: Fuji
EPC: Black & Veatch and Leighton Contractors
(Philippines) Inc
Quick facts: In Jul 2012, a subsidiary of Aboitiz
Power signed contracts worth $546mn for the
Therma South CFB TPP in Brgy Inawayan, Sta
Cruz, Davao del Sur, and adjacent Davao City.
Design fuel is subbituminous coal from Kalimantan
and the dome coal storage facility is the first in SE
Asia. The stack is 150m tall. The first unit
synchronized in Jun 2015 and went commercial in
Sep 2015. TSIs initial 300-MW capacity has been
contracted to about 20 electric coops and three
discos in Mindanao, two of which are AboitizPower
subsidiaries in Davao and Cotabato.

Sual
Toledo New
Location: Pangasinan (Ilocos)
Location: Cebu (C Visayas)
Operator: TeaM Energy Corp
Operator: Kepco Phillipines Corp
Configuration: 2 X 647 MW
Configuration: 3 X 82 MW
Operation: 1999
Operation: 2011
Fuel: bituminous coal
Fuel: coal
Boiler supplier: Stein
Boiler supplier: Formosa Heavy Industries
T/G supplier: GEC-Alstom
T/G supplier: Kawasaki, Toshiba MitsubishiEPC: GEC-Alstom, Arup, Slipform
Electric Industrial Systems
Quick facts: These are the largest generators in
EPC: Formosa Heavy Industries
the Philippines. Development started when
Quick facts:In Sep 2004, Mirant announced that it
Consolidated Electric Power Asia Ltd (a subsidiary would build a 100-MW CFB at its Sangi plant in
of Hopewell Holdings) bid and won a $900mn
Toledo City, Cebu, for $100mn. The project was
BOOT tender for a 1,000-MW power station at
taken forward by Global Business Power Corp,
Sual. Site prep started in 1995, construction
which completed a trio of 82-MW, CFB coal-fired
started in Feb 1996, and Unit-1 went commercial in
units at the site in 2011.
Oct 1999. The 142ha site is on Bangayao Point on
Photograph by mmcg968 (flickr)
Lingayen Gulf. The plant has Alstom wet limestone
Posted 30 May 2012
FGD scrubbers, the first FGD systems in the
country. The stack is 226m tall.
Photograph courtesy of tinypic
Re-posted 22 Aug 2010

Photograph courtesy of newsdesk.asia

Posted 19 Sep 2015

Abbreviations
Data: industcards, Platts UDI World Electric Power Plants Data Base
Updated 02-Dec-2016
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