RP awards power projects

Thu, 01 Dec 1994 | Source: AFP

MANILA (AFP): Thirteen foreign companies have been contracted by the Philippine government to implement power interconnection projects costing more than US$318 million, the state-owned National Power Corp. (NPC) said here yesterday.

The projects involve constructing submarine cables and overhead transmission lines for a proposed 200-megawatt grid serving the two central islands of Cebu and Leyte and a 400- megawatt grid serving Leyte and the main Philippine island of Luzon, NPC president Guido Delgado said.

For the Leyte-Luzon project, a consortium led by Swiss-based ABB Power Systems AB and Marubeni Corp. of Japan will provide and install a converter, electrode and cable terminal stations at a cost of $127.64 million.

A Japanese group, composed of Nissho Iwai Corp., Kanematsu Corp., FujiKura Ltd. and Hitachi Cable Ltd. will install a portion of the submarine cable, which will carry power from a plant in Leyte to Luzon substations, at a cost of $68.24 million.

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