Bidding for Aboitiz EPC deal enters final stages

BY LENIE LECTURA – DECEMBER 6, 2021
from Business Mirror

Aboitiz Power Corp. is wrapping up the bidding for the engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contract for its solar power project in Pangasinan.

“For our 94-megawatt (MW) DC solar project in Cayanga, Bugallon, Pangasinan, the engineering, procurement, and construction tendering process is in the final stages and target notice to proceed (NTP) is expected in the first week of December,” said AboitizPower President Emmanuel Rubio during the Energy Investment Forum last Friday.

Once the NTP is issued, the EPC contractor could commence construction for the solar power facility that is expected to be commercially operational by fourth quarter of 2022, added Rubio.

Last May, the power firm said in a statement that it will start the construction of a 74MW solar power facility in Pangasinan within the second half of the year. The Cayanga project will be the company’s second solar power venture after its 59-MW-peak facility in San Carlos City, Negros Occidental, which was inaugurated in 2016.

The solar project, to be built in Cayanga in the town of Bugallon, about 13 kilometers southwest of the provincial capital of Lingayen, recently received board approval and is now in the development stage.