Atimonan switches to 2,400-MW LNG plant

in Quezon province and will instead construct a 2,400-megawatt combined cycle gas turbine power project and liquefied natural gas terminal with floating storage unit at a cost of P175 billion.

The company said, however, in documents submitted to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources for environmental impact assessment, the project would be converted into a cleaner option—a CCGT power plant using natural gas as fuel and delivered via an LNG carrier and LNG terminal. It said the environmental compliance certificate for the transmission line issued for the previously proposed coal plant on May 27, 2016 woud be amended for the proposed project in Barangay Villa Ibaba, Atimonan.

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