Monday, May 26, 2008 [ philstar.com ]
CALAPAN CITY – An American company is putting up a P4-billion wind-diesel hybrid energy power-generation facility in Oriental Mindoro that will produce at least 25 megawatts for the whole Mindoro island.
The Philippine Hybrid Energy Systems Inc. (PHESI), a unit of Breeze Electric Llc of the United States, is targeting commercial operation in January 2010 to supply electricity to the estimated 200,000 consumers of Oriental Mindoro Electric Cooperative (Ormeco) and Occidental Mindoro Electric Cooperative (Omeco).
Ormeco distributes electricity to over 99,000 customers in 421 barangays, while Omeco has over 46,000 customers in 135 barangays.
The PHESI power plant will supply about 23 percent of Mindoro’s annual electricity demand.
The Board of Investments has granted full incentives to the project since it falls under the Investment Priorities Plan’s Energy-Power Generation using indigenous and renewable energy.
BOI managing director Elmer Hernandez said projects like PHESI’s are also eligible for pioneer status. – Juancho Mahusay
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