THE Department of Energy (DoE) has issued a circular that will require half of the supply contracted as reserve power to be on a “firm” basis in which the grid operator has a binding agreement to source its requirement from a power generation plant.
“Signed na ang AS (ancillary services) policy. Ipa-publish na lang namin (The ancillary services policy has been signed. We will shortly publish it),” DoE Assistant Secretary Redentor E. Delola said.
“We’ll probably publish it in the next couple of weeks,” he told reporters.
Ancillary services, which generally refer to power reserves, are necessary to support the transmission of power capacity and energy from generation sources to consumption loads. These reserves maintain the reliable operation of the transmission system in line with good utility practice and the Philippine Grid Code.
