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Power retailer Manila Electric Co. and South Premiere Power Corp. are seeking approval of their agreement for the supply of 1,200 megawatts of capacity that would redound to the benefit of consumers this year.
SPPC, which owns and operates the 1,200- MW combined-cycle power generating facility in Barangay Ilijan, Batangas City, won the best bid during Meralco’s competitive selection process last year. The parties said that given a certain set of assumptions, the annual effective rate under the 2024 Meralco-SPPC PSA is P5.9450 per kWh.Meralco said the annual delivered rate of P6.0950 per kWh would be lower by about P1.5436 per kWh than the effective cost of P7.6386 per kWh, if the equivalent capacity under the PSA is to be sourced from the electricity spot market.
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