The Yuchengco Group said Monday it energized the 19.6-megawatt-peak San Jose solar power plant in Nueva Ecija, which started exporting power to the Luzon grid on Dec. 21, 2024.
The facility is owned by San Jose Green Energy Corp., one of four special purpose companies under Yuchengco-led Rizal Green Energy Corporation (RGEC).
RGEC is a joint-venture between PetroGreen Energy Corp. (PGEC), the renewable energy (RE) holding firm of publicly listed PetroEnergy Resources Corp. and Japan’s Taisei Corp.
“The San Jose solar plant is the second utility-scale solar plant we put on-line to the grid this year following the successful export of power last Nov. 12, 2024 from our Dagohoy solar plant in Bohol. But it is the fourth new RE facility PGEC has switched-on this year following the partial commissioning of our 13.2 MW Nabas-2 wind power project in Aklan last April 4, 2024 and the 360 KWp Mapua Malayan Colleges of Mindanao rooftop solar facility in Davao City last July 8, 2024,” said PGEC vice president for commercial operations Maria Victoria Olivar.
“These new RE facilities not only enlarge and spread PGEC’s power operations across the country but as significant will increase our future revenues,” she said.
PetroEnergy said in a statement the San Jose facility would generate about 29 gigawatt-hours of electricity annually from more than 24,600 units of 670 Wp and more than 4,500 units of 675 Wp Trina PV panels.
Mobilization of project contractors started in the fourth quarter of 2023 and plant construction was completed by November 2024.
“This milestone was achieved following the issuance by the Independent Energy Market Operator of the Philippines’ of the project’s Wholesale Electricity Spot Market registration as a generating unit and the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines’s provisional approval to connect on Dec. 19 and 20, 2024, respectively,” said PGEC assistant vice president for power markets Dave Gadiano.
“The facility was successfully energized as a load unit last Dec. 11, 2024 which led to the timely completion of the testing of the substation transformer and other electrical components prior to grid export,” said Gadiano.
RGEC’s portfolio also includes the 27-MWp Dagohoy solar project in Bohol, the 25-MWp Bugallon solar project in Pangasinan and the 40-MWp Limbauan solar project in Isabela.
