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
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.