Group: ERC should set larger GEAR charge for floating photo voltaic
The Philippine Photo voltaic and Storage Vitality Alliance (PSSEA) is asking the Vitality Regulatory Fee (ERC) to set the next Inexperienced Vitality Public sale Reserve (GEAR) value for floating photo voltaic know-how.
“The PSSEA respectfully prays that the Honorable Fee considers P7.3661 per kilowatt hour (kWh) as GEA-2 GEAR value for photo voltaic PV on water and for the elimination of SESC [Solar Energy Service Contract] as one of many requisites for the photo voltaic builders,” the group mentioned in a submitting with the ERC.
The company is at present holding public consultations on the proposed GEAR value for rooftop photo voltaic at P4.7156 per kWh; ground-mounted photo voltaic, P4.2395 per kWh; floating photo voltaic, P4.7565 per kWh; wind, P5.9823 per kWh, and biomass, P5.1475 per kWh.
The ERC units costs for the federal government’s GEA program to make sure the bottom value for renewable vitality sources.
PSSEA mentioned that not like in ground-mounted photo voltaic, photo voltaic PV on water incurs extra prices in development and operations, together with however not restricted to, set up of floaters, anchoring and mooring of the system. These techniques, it added, are the distinctive options of floating photo voltaic and are indispensable in conserving it as a substitute.
In comparison with ground-mounted photo voltaic, PSSEA mentioned floating photo voltaic incurs a minimum of a 20 p.c larger challenge price. It urged the ERC to set a floating photo voltaic GEAR value that’s reflective of the price incurred in the whole worth chain.
“The GEAR value for photo voltaic PV on water should be considerably larger than ground-mounted. Allocating a GEAR value for photo voltaic PV on water equal to or lower than the ground-mounted photo voltaic will negate the aim of GEAP and defeat the spirit of the GEAR guidelines in supporting the event of latest renewable vitality tasks below a aggressive course of.”
Additionally, below present guidelines, solely photo voltaic builders with SESC can register to take part in GEAP. PSSEA mentioned this must be reviewed.
“The core of the SESC or photo voltaic vitality working contract is possessory rights to the challenge areas. With this, we pray to the ERC that photo voltaic builders with present possessory rights over pre-determined or decided space be eligible and qualify as bidders to GEA-2.”
To make floating photo voltaic industrial, PSSEA Chairperson Tetchi Capellan mentioned individually that the ERC has to set excessive tariffs “in order that the primary pioneer who’s going to soak up all of the completely different issues within the first set, could be compensated.”
