Philippine and Thai companies to co-build Philippine power plant

Coal-fired power plant will rise in Quezon province.

Meralco PowerGen Corporation has executed a development and other related agreements with Thailand’s Electricity Generation Public Company Ltd (EGCO) to build a new coal-fired power plant in Quezon. Meralco PowerGen is the power generating arm of Manila Electric Company, the Philippines’ largest electricity distributor.

The deal involves building a 460 MW supercritical power plant under the Quezon Power Project in the town of Mauban in Quezon.

In July, EGCO International decided to invest in established and operating power projects in the Philippines such as the Quezon power plant in Mauban.

Meralco earlier said it was in the planning stages of building 2,880 MW of new capacity to grow its power generation portfolio long-term ahead of a possible power supply crunch in Luzon in the next few years.

Supercritical technologies operate at increasingly higher temperatures to achieve higher efficiencies than conventional coal-fired power plants and have significant carbon dioxide reductions.