“I am optimistic that construction of the project would start
middle of next year,” Arcinue said.
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IN FULL SWING: Mayor Roberto Ll. Arcinue of Sual tells newsmen that talks for the establishment of a second power plant in the municipality are in full swing.
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Korean Electric Power Corporation or KEPCO, the biggest power
producer in South Korea with branches in the Philippines and several other
countries, is putting up the 1,000-megawatt power plant at an estimated cost of
two billion US dollars.
Lawyer Raul Lambino, recently appointed by President Duterte as Presidential Adviser
for Northern Luzon, said he would strongly recommend to the President the power
plant project in Sual to help address high electricity rates and to stabilize
power supply in the country.
Lambino said that South Korean Ambassador Han Dong-man told him
about their plan to put up another coal-fired power plant here.
Arcinue and Lambino welcomed KEPCO’s initiative as this would
create more than a thousand jobs for Pangasinenses as well as millions of
additional revenues estimated at P800 million annually for the province and the
municipality of Sual.
Lambino said there is no
problem about pollution because of the advent of new coal technologies that
greatly reduce if not eliminate greenhouse gas emission.
Among these new technologies is the ultra-super critical coal-fired power
plant which at present is considered as
a “High Efficiency Low Emission (HELE) Technology” and as a “green technology”.
For the power plant here, KEPCO would be using the ultra-supercritical
technology which is the latest in coal power generation.
More power plants
With the influx of foreign investors, Director General Charito B.
Plaza of the Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) stressed the importance
of constructing more power plants, including another coal-fired power plant here, to insure stable and cheaper power supply.
This is in line with the plan of the
national government to create a mega-economic zone in Pangasinan.
Plaza said big foreign companies are eyeing
Pangasinan for their expansion and conversion of the province into a
mega-economic zone will open this possibility.
This move requires stable and cheaper supply of
power to sustain the operation of the industries to be put up provided the
power plants to be constructed conform with environmental standards, she said.
Plaza visited Pangasinan early this year following
the holding of the Luzon Economic Zone Summit in Dagupan City last year.
Mayor Arcinue, who attended the event, happily
welcomed this development even as he disclosed ongoing talks with KEPCO
officials for the construction of another power plant in Sual town.
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