As the country’s
sole power grid operator and since it took over
transmission operations
from the government in
2009, NGCP has significantly expanded the country’s transmission network.
Its roster of completed
projects reflect the company’s dedication to its
mandate of improving and
expanding the grid.
Upgraded facilities, improved services for
the nation
NGCP has so far
invested PhP 300 billion
into what was in 2009, the
government’s aging transmission system. A total of
3,729 circuit-kilometers
of transmission lines, 28
new substations, and an
additional 31,190MVA of
transformer capacity has
been installed in the past
14 years.
From 2009 to
2022, the company completed 56 projects which
include the following:
the Mariveles-Hermosa
500kV Transmission Line,
expanding the transmission capacity in the area to
accommodate more than
2,500MW of generation
from the Bataan Peninsula; the Luzon Voltage
Improvement Projects
Stages 1, 3, and 4, which
provided additional MegaVolt Ampere (MVA) capacity to boost voltage; the
San Jose-Quezon 230kV
Transmission line 3 project, widening the power
corridor serving Metro
Manila; and the Pagbilao
500kV Extra High Voltage
Substation, which accommodated the connection
of around 1,420MW from
power plants in Quezon
province.
For Visayas,
NGCP energized its Cebu-Negros-Panay 230kV
Backbone Stage 1, interconnecting Cebu, Negros,
and Panay for faster and
more efficient power sharing; the Ormoc-Babatngon
138kV Transmission Line,
reinforcing power transmission delivery in the
Leyte and Samar provinces; the Calong Calong-Toledo-Colon-Cebu 138kV
Transmission Line, constructed to create an N-1
system between Negros
and Panay grids; and the
Bohol 138kV Backbone
Line, which solved the
overloading condition and
provided a more stable
and reliable transmission
network in Bohol.
In Mindanao,
the company completed
the Maramag-Bunawan
230kV Transmission Line,
the first 230kV transmission line in the region;
the Villanueva-Maramag
230kV Transmission
Line, linking northern and
southern Mindanao; the
Aurora-Polanco 138kV
Transmission Line, which
mitigated voltage fluctuations in Zamboanga del
Norte all the way to Misamis Occidental.
On 30 April 2023,
NGCP successfully energized the PhP 52-Billion
Mindanao-Visayas Interconnection project (MVIP),
a landmark undertaking
connecting the power
grids of Visayas and Mindanao. The MVIP will provide a more reliable and
sustainable transmission
service as well as promote
energy resource sharing.
More projects in
the pipeline
NGCP’s Transmission Development Plan
(TDP) details these priority
projects to improve transmission backbones and
alternative transmission
corridors, and to develop
resiliency policies for power transmission facilities.
The company is
set to complete more projects in 2023, particularly
critical projects such as the
Hermosa-San Jose 500kV
Transmission Line Project, Cebu-Negros-Panay
Stage 3 Backbone Project, Nabas-Caticlan-Boracay Transmission Line
Project, Cebu-Bohol Interconnection Project, and
commence new projects
approved by the Energy
Regulatory Commission
such as the Batangas-Mindoro Interconnection Project.
“NGCP’s PhP
300 Billion grid expansion, reinforcement, and
upgrading initiatives from
2009 to present, as well
as those in the pipeline,
are meticulously planned
by our engineers and updated year after year with
careful consideration for
the needs of every single area in the country,”
NGCP noted. “We continue to be hopeful that
improvements in all 3 sectors of the power delivery
system are in sync with
each other, so that one
sector is not made to be
the sole or principal solution to challenges in the
other sectors,” the company stressed. “This is a system, and to make it robust,
resilient and responsive to
the needs of a fast growing economy, the direction
and coordination must be
clear, equally implemented, and objectively pursued. Our stakeholders
can be assured that we remain committed to improving and delivering reliable
power transmission services,” NGCP said. END
