SN Aboitiz Power Inc, a joint venture between Aboitiz Power Corp. and SN Power Invest announced that the rehabilitation of the 175 MW Ambuklao-Binga hydro electric power plants is ongoing and will cost about $280-million.
The money will be used to recommission the Ambuklao power plant that was damaged in an 1999 earthquake as well as to upgrade the generation capacity of the Binga plant. The expected capacity after this upgrade and repair is 225 MW with a combined annual generation charge of 760 giga-watt-hours.
The breakdown in capacity upgrade is 105 MW for Ambuklao from its original 75 MW. Binga’s will from to 120MW from its original 100 MW.
SNAP expects the power plants to be fixed by December 2010.
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Category: Hydro, Clean Energy, Aboitiz
