Repower Energy Development Corp., a unit of Pure Energy Holdings Corp., said Monday it secured from the Department of Energy a hydropower service contract to develop and build a seawater pump storage hydropower facility in the coastal town of Real.
REDC will soon build a 320-megaWatt seawater pumped storage hydropower facility in Pacific Ocean-facing town of Quezon province.
The listed power firm earlier signed a deal with Austria-based Gugler Water Turbines GMBH to develop seawater pump storage generation facilities throughout the Philippines. Under the memorandum of agreement, the first project will be located in an area within Luzon.
The project in Real will have an elevation of around 300 meters above sea level, and the lower reservoir will utilize the coastline for unlimited seawater intake. REDC will be responsible for the funding of the pre-feasibility and initial activities which will come from internally generated funds.
“The development of a seawater pumped storage hydropower facility in Real, Quezon shall be the first of its kind in the Philippines, thus allowing the company to be a pioneering force in this particular area of clean energy,” said Eric Peter Roxas, president and chief executive officer of REDC.
The pumped-storage hydro system on the northern coast of Okinawa Island, Japan, was the world’s first pumped-storage facility to use seawater for storing energy. The power station was a pure pumped-storage facility, using the Philippine sea as its lower reservoir.
Laguna Lake has for decades been host of the Caliraya pump-storage facility.
