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BY MAE SINGUAY
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Monday, February 13, 2017
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BACOLOD City – Energreen Power Development and Management, Inc. hopes to deliver by March this year all the 18.9 megawatts (MW) of diesel power the Central Negros Electric Cooperative (Ceneco) has contracted.
Consultant David Tan said Energreen will have to confer with Ceneco to decide when the 15-year power purchase contract should start: when the first engine delivered 4.2 MW in May 2016 or during full delivery (all four engines) next month.
Energreen — through a diesel plant in Barangay Calumangan, Bago City, Negros Occidental — shall deliver 18.9 MW of “peak and reserve” for 15 years, based on the deal it struck with Ceneco on Aug. 5, 2013.
But Utilities Consumers Alliance of Negros criticized Energreen and Ceneco for the non-delivery of the agreed power supply on time.
Citing a provision of a “supplemental agreement,” the organization said Energreen should have started delivering 9 MW on Nov. 26, 2014 provided that all 18.9 MW were delivered on or before Dec. 26 that year.
Ceneco president Arnel Lapore explained that Energreen had until Feb. 26, 2015 to deliver, citing the 90-day “grace period” after the Nov. 26, 2014 deadline.
But what happened was worse: Energreen started delivering 4.2 MW only in May 2016 and gradually delivered 12.6 MW, all from three of the four engines of the diesel-fired power plant.
Currently the fourth engine, with a capacity of 6.3 MW, was the only inoperative engine.
Causes of the delay had something to do with logistics: challenges in getting permits, power plant construction and weather, among others, Tan said on Saturday.
The cost of delivered power was P7.30 per kilowatt-hour./PN
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