Alternergy installs equipment for Quezon project
By Myrna M. Velasco – October 26, 2022, 3:58 PM
from Manila Bulletin
Renewable energy firm Alternergy has installed a meteorological (met) mast to measure the actual electricity generation potential of its targeted 50-megawatt wind power project to be sited at Alabat Island in Quezon province.
According to Alternergy Chief Technical Director Knud Hedeager, “the met mast will validate the strength and capacity of the wind resource over the next two years.”
The met mast which measures 80 meters tall; was sourced from NRG Systems of the United States, a leading manufacturer of wind resource assessment technologies.
Typically, it was emphasized that wind resource measurements, like met masts, are often installed at the targeted project site and the height of the equipment often corresponds to the planned wind turbines to be deployed.
If proven to be of commercial-scale capacity, the Alabat wind power project of the company will form part of the group’s blueprinted 1,370MW installations to be concretized in the next five years – and it will be a suite of RE developments across technologies such as onshore wind, offshore wind, solar and run-of-river hydropower ventures.
Alternergy Chairman Vincent S. Pérez, who also served previously as Secretary of Energy, emphasized that “the Alabat Island is strategically chosen as a project site for our Alabat wind power project.
He explained that “by developing a wind project in a site that bravely faces the ever-prevailing “amihan” (northeast monsoon) from the Pacific Ocean, Alternergy aims to turn a natural resource into a reliable source of clean energy.”
Altenergy emphasized that this is already the 10th met mast it has erected – that was since 2008, primarily for wind power projects that it has been pursuing throughout Luzon, including for its development-prospects in Mindoro.
On the sphere of wind technology installation, the first successful project of the company has been its 54MW Pililla wind farm in Rizal province, which is now thriving also as a tourist destination near Metro Manila.
For its targeted next phase of wind power development in Quezon, Alternergy emphasized that
“based on the global wind atlas, the project site has more than 7 meters per second (m/s) average wind speed,” which is roughly similar to the resource potential of its Pililla wind power facility.
