Norwegian firm awarded WESCs

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The Department of Energy (DOE) signed wind energy service contracts (WESCs) with Mainstream Renewable Power, a 100 percent Norwegian firm, for the development of two onshore wind projects in Luzon and Visayas.

The agency said the projects have a combined capacity of 440 megawatts (MW) comprised of the 100 MW Santa Ana Cagayan wind project and the 340 MW Panaon wind project on Panaon Island in Leyte.

The DOE added the projects, each with a 25-year operating period, represent Mainstream’s first wholly- owned onshore wind service contracts in the Philippines, making the company one of the first 100 percent foreign-owned firms to develop the country’s indigenous and renewable energy sources.

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DOE said Mainstream has been operating in the Philippines since 2017 in partnership with Aboitiz Power Corp. for a 58 MW onshore wind project in Camarines Sur.

Mainstream also has wind and solar assets in Latin America, Africa and other countries in Asia-Pacific.

“With the Philippine economy now thriving, marked by good growth and optimistic forecasts, we are pleased with the positive response of foreign and local investors to pour in capital in our country’s renewable energy sources. Mainstream will be bringing in financial muscle and technological heft to work with our world-class workers throughout the construction and operational phases of all these projects, which means more employment for our people and livelihood opportunities in these areas,” said DOE Secretary Raphael Lotilla, in a statement.

To date, the DOE has issued 21 WESCs to foreign-owned companies and developers, four of which are for offshore wind while 17 are for onshore wind.

Some of these companies are owned or partly owned by developers in European countries such as Denmark, Belgium, France and the Netherlands.

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