Power Plant, Panay Island, Philippines
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 plant 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.
Power Rental
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 rental 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.
Temporary Power Plant
The 69kV power plant 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.