NGCP putting up new substation in Pasay

MANILA, Philippines — The National Grid Corp. of the Philippines (NGCP) is putting up a new substation in Pasay City worth nearly P13 billion to meet the ever growing power requirements in the southern part of Metro Manila.

NGCP’s proposed construction of the Pasay 230-kilovolt (kv) Substation was cleared by the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC).

The new substation, to be located within the reclamation area in Pasay City, had an estimated project cost of P13.02 billion, but the ERC approved a lower cost at P12.92 billion.

It would be connected to the Luzon grid through the Las Piñas 230-kv Substation through a nine-kilometer underground transmission line, which would corner P8.64 billion of the total project cost.

NGCP said the project aims to address the lack of N-1 contingency of the 18-year old Las Piñas Substation and to meet future capacity expansion in the area.

This as the capacity of its existing Muntinlupa and Las Piñas substations in the area cannot be expanded due to limited space.

“The proposed project, among others, aims to cater to the load growth in Metro Manila, relieve the heavy loading of transformers at the Las Piñas 230-kv substation during single outage (N-1) contingency, and to provide for a bigger room for future capacity expansion,” it said.

The new Pasay substation would serve as a new drawdown substation “to provide for a bigger room for expansion of capacity for future load growth as well as the improvement of voltage regulation to the underlying 115-kv substation of Manila Electric Co. (Meralco).”