SUAL,
Pangasinan - More than a thousand workers are needed for the planned
construction of the second power plant in this town.
This
was learned from the representatives of Korea Electric Power Corporation
(KEPCO) which is currently holding talks with municipal officials headed by
Mayor Roberto Arcinue for the construction of the second power plant.
Also,
more than three hundred regular employees would be needed for its operation.
Project
workers and employees needed should come from this coastal town as mandated by an ordinance
which requires investors to recruit Sual residents for their manpower
requirements, if ever available locally.
Aside
from hundreds of jobs, some P800 million in real property taxes could be
collected annually from the proposed power plant, which shall be shared by the
province, this municipality and barangay Baquioen here where the plant would be located.
KEPCO E&C has developed high capacity, highly efficient, and environment-friendly 1000MW class coal fired thermal power plant design technology in response to the strengthening of global environmental concern and the securing issue of large scale power plant sites. |
It
was reported that majority of Sual residents welcomed the second power plant
project, including womenfolk, senior citizens, farmers and fisherfolk,
employees, and students who stand to benefit through the scholarship program of
the project proponent .
The
project proponent is spending about two billion US dollars for the power plant
project which has a generating capacity of 1,000 megawatts.
The
mayor said this will boost and stabilize the power supply for the Luzon grid to
do away with frequent power interruptions.
The
construction of the second coal-fired power plant, he added, dovetails with the
pronouncement of President Duterte who stressed the need to put up more
coal-fired power plants to avert another power crisis owing to ballooning
population and influx of investors.
Duterte said he sees nothing wrong with the
government’s plan to put up new coal-fired power plants to boost power supply
in the country.
“You open the Philippines for all power
players, I guarantee you the electricity will become cheaper,” Duterte
repeatedly said as he inaugurated several coal-fired power plants in Visayas
and Mindanao, the latest of which was the 405-megawatt coal-fired power plant
in Misamis Oriental.
“At this time, whoever is the president of the
Philippines would always contend with coal. There’s so much coal still that can
be utilized by civilization for the next 50 to 70 years..... You open the
Philippines for all power players, I guarantee you the electricity will become
cheaper,” he said.
The
President stressed that there should be no problem with coal when it comes to
pollution owing to the advent of new technologies.
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”.
Its
high efficiency can reach of up to 45% which substantially cut its GHG emission
by 30% compared to its predecessors or older coal fired power plants having
efficiencies as low as 33% only.
For
its Sual power plant, KEPCO would be using the ultra-supercritical technology
which is the latest in coal power generation.
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