Asian Energy Advisors

I blogged a few days ago that “This is going to be interesting” in regards to the ECR Hearings on Interim Open Access.

The big question that is emerging, as I see it, is:

“What impact will this have on the residual captive customers of the DUs.”

The petitioning group asserts that over 2,000 MW will be made available under this program.

So the emerging corollary question, therefore, is:

“What’s happening with this ‘excess’ power right now?”

An article in GMA News quotes Team Energy’s President Frederico Puno as saying, regarding Team Energy’s generating plants:

“TeaM Energy is looking at an excess of 200MW from the 600-MW Sual coal-fired power plant located in Pangasinan and 35 MW from the 700-MW Pagbilao coal-fired plant in Quezon.”

“The excess of more than 200 MW cannot be sold to industries if there isn’t an interim open access regime, since output from these plants is now bound under supply contracts to the National Power Corporation (Napocor).”

Is that last sentence a newspaper misquote? (happens a lot) or, if not, can someone tell me what it means? If the 200 MW is now bound under supply contracts to NPC, how does the proposed Interim Access TOR change that?

It’s key: what is happening with the excess 200 MW today? Is Team Energy sitting on it or is it going some place already?

If it’s going some place already, then it’s ending up in the hands of consumers. Will Interim Open Access put it in the hands of different consumers (i.e. just those eligible for Interim Open Access) and take it from the hands of others? This is, at least in part, one of the concerns the ERC intend to look into, I understand.

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