Emergency Baseload Power Station,
Panay Island, Philippines
The challenge to the customer
Panay Island is one of the islands
located in the Visayas Island group. Situated in the middle of the
Philippine archipelago, the Visayas island group is linked by the
Cebu-Negros-Panay sub grid. Panay Island is located at the tail-end
of the grid making it most vulnerable to power shortfalls in the
Visayas region.
The Philippine state-owned
National Power Corporation (NPC)
urgently required a temporary power
supply to supplement the grid and ease the occurrence
of power interruptions in the region that were affecting an
estimated 3.5 million people in Panay Island.
Aggreko's solution: baseload power plant
Aggreko installed and operated a 10
MW/69kV baseload power
plant at the Panit-an substation in the Capiz Province of Panay
Island. A complete package was supplied including generators,
transformers, fuel tanks, and high voltage cabling. All equipment
and ancillaries were mobilised, installed and commissioned less
than 40 days after the contract-signing.
The benefits to the customer
The 69kV power package was supplied
to allow direct connection to the Panit-an substation. This
arrangement gave the additional advantages of minimising
transmission losses and improving the voltage stability in the
system.