Its a good news that Suweco is taking a serious look at the wind energy potentials of our province. Seven years ago, the Joint UNDP/World Bank Energy Sector Management Assistance Programme ESMAP), a special global technical assistance program run as part of the World Bank's Energy, Mining and TelecommLinications Department, eliminated our province along with Guimaras and Romblon.
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Apparently, the wind vane and turbine technology at that time were not yet designed to withstand to extreme weather changes. And hopefully, that if the plan push through, the engineers should locate the wind farm far from inhabited areas because of the noise pollution wind vanes creates and out of birds habitat to reduce birds fatalities.
"Catanduanes was eliminated because of vulnerability to typhoons. Romblon and Guimaras were eliminated because of limited ability to absorb a large wind project (unless an underwater cable to a significant load center already exists) and because of moderate resource indications (for large wind plants, not for wind/diesel or Rural applications). In addition, access for constructing and operating a windfarm would appear to be more difficult than at the Ilocos Norte sites."
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Wind energy potential for Catanduanes is way high in terms of capacity. And you are right, viability for putting a wind farm in Catanduanes, being one of those sites profiled by the WB-ESMAP as pilot sites seven years ago with Bangui Bay in Ilocos as the eventual choice, is low taking into consideration
technology. Catanduanes was eliminated only because they need the most viable area.
But it does not meat altogether that wind energy project is not at all an impossible thing to come. There are now designs that can handle typhoons both the vertical and horizontal wind turbines.
Good thing SUWECO is taking bold steps in generating power from energy that are cheapest in the long run.
Opps, I mean clean energy that are cheapest (because all you need to power your turbines are the strong winds which Catanduanes have all year round for free!)
Thanks, personally, I go for renewable energy to source our power needs and indeed it's a good thing...
But these facilities don't come cheap and often are dollar denominated loans, payable for so many years.
It would be cheapest perhaps, if our currency continues to appreciate in the future or if SUWECO will interconnect with the Luzon/Visayas grid and sell their excess load during off-peak hours. Wishful thinking..:)
I think China is starting to catch up with renewable energy technologies, and it will soon come cheaper than European , Japan and US not only in wind energy tech, and also in hydro and solar power technologies.
Catanduanes is under NPC-SPUG and that means we can't benefit from cheap power rates from the Luzon grid (but we're protected once power rates spikes upward, but that too is wishful thinking).
If SUWECO is forward looking and can make profit from underground power cables, selling excess power to the luzon grid is not a bad idea. Maybe they should be rewarded with incentives from Transco or the DOE so they will push on with their renewable energy projects.
I think SUWECO will have the mini-hydro projects registered as CDM projects under the Kyoto Protocol. They will get paid for the carbon credits they will get, both from mini-hydro and eventually the wind power project.
Hmmm, that's interesting.
A crucial feature of an approved CDM carbon project is that it has established that the planned reductions would not occur without the additional incentive provided by emission reductions credits a concept known as "additionality".
So SUWECO is indeed serious in their plan to push for a wind farm project, right?
Aaaaaahaaa!!!i dont believe that catanduanes was eliminated because of less viability. (The island is less populated than ilocos}it will take years to get their investment back.
For me, i would have my own personal solar power for my personal use,(it works here in UK) sells the energy i dont need to my kababayan..Meanwhile i need to look into one supplier and save my hard earn cash. Were are you kababyan, OFW invest in catanduanes...
Many thanks indeed for dropping by kababayan...
Nice suggestion of yours for inviting OFWs to invest in Catanduanes considering recent power and infrastructure developments.
While there are many potentials for development in our province, what is lacking is the knowledge, marketing network, cheap power and technology to develop those into full potentials.
By the way, I'm here right now in the Philippines.
SUWECO can have wind farm project qualify as a CDM project and can pass the "additonality" test. After the project is registered as a CDM project, it is only then that SUWECO can benefit from the carbon emission reductions (CERs) by selling it to countries that has signed for a GHG emissions cap as agreed in the Kyoto Protocol. Now brokers for carbon credits are also into these carbon markets and SUWECO can sell their credits to these groups.
A sure clincher that the SUWECO potential wind farm project will pass CDM additionality test is that it is not a "business as usual project" and also it features huge socio-economic benefits. SUWECO should also state in their application (if they apply) that they can not pursue their projects (due to low IRR) without the potential incentives from CDM carbon credits.
But if SUWECO say that they will pursue the projects and planned the projects without considering it as a potential CDM, then they can not qualify for CDM.
In any case, with or without CDM, it is a good step that private initiatives are moving forward in renewable energy projects.
-catandungan
Thanks for sharing that information, Catandungan.
Hoping to see more of your comments and opinions in the future.:)
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