OCEAN

ENERGY
PHILIPPINES
LOURDESIREE
LATIMER
President: Bell Pirie Power Corp (PH)
Director: Energy Island Bell Pirie Ltd. (UK)
Resource Person & Proponent: NREB/ERC/DOE
ENERGY ISLAND BELL PIRIE LTD (UK)
 WAS FORMED AS A RESULT OF A COLLABORATION AMONG MAINLY UK
COMPANIES TO COMMERCIALISE OTEC:

Energy Island Ltd. ,Vega Consulting, Halcrow, Noble Denton (now DNV GL), Parsons Brinckerhoff
and the Univ. of Southampton - School of Engineering Sciences

 OTEC CONSULTANCY SERVICES TO GOVTS AND PROJECT DEVELOPERS:

 Resource mapping and assessment
 Site selection and feasibility studies
 Environmental, permitting and regulatory compliances

BELL PIRIE POWER CORP. (PH)

 LOCAL PROJECT DEV CO OF ENERGY ISLAND BELL PIRIE LTD.
 HOLDS AN OTEC SERVICE CONTRACT IN CABANGAN, ZAMBALES (1200 HAS.) AND
FURTHER FOUR (4) OPTIONS IN SITES AROUND ZAMBALES (2), PANGASINAN &
DAVAO DEL SUR (7,000 HAS.)
OCEAN ENERGIES
in PH

OTEC Wave Tidal Current

• sun • wind • tides
• thermal • mechanical • mechanical
• Base load • variable • variable
OTEC POTENTIAL
256 MILLION MW
TIDAL POTENTIAL
WAVE POTENTIAL
TIMELINE OCEAN ENERGY NREB PETITION
27 July 2012 ERC Decision: Deferred action on the proposed FIT for ocean
“until sufficient data becomes available upon which the
Commission may base its determination”
22 March 2013 Manifestation with Motion to Submit Additional Documents
was filed by NREB
25 November 2013 ERC granted the Motion through an Order
January 2014 NREB filed its Notice of Compliance and Manifestation
providing additional documents to support the reasonableness
of the key parameters and assumptions used as inputs to the
Financial Model to compute the proposed initial FIT for ocean
energy, as well as, a summary of the documents already
submitted and formally offered to the ERC to support the
proposed FIT for ocean
23 January 2014 Hearing on the additional evidence with Mrs. L. Latimer and
Dir. Mario Marasigan (REMB-DOE) as resource persons
17 March 2014 NREB was considered to have rested its case after additional
documents were formally offered in evidence to the ERC.
NREB PETITION
REPRESENTATIVE SIZE: 10 MW
REPRESENTATIVE TECHNOLOGY: OTEC

DOE
INSTALLED TARGET: 10 MW
 Like-for-like figures for 10 mw ocean
energy technologies - Philippines
Tidal Tidal Wave 3
OTEC 1 Current: 2 Current Base case:
Zambales low-band San 20kw/m
resource Bernardino

capital cost (usd m) 186.00 104.00 104.00 4 86.00

load factor % 95.2 25.00 37.00 5 20.00

net capacity factor % 60.00 23.00 33.00 17.80

fit rate (php) * 17.62 48.36 6 26.947 43.85 8

* using NREB excel model

1 Proposed 10 MW project in Cabangan, Zambales as submitted to ERC, May 2011

2 ANNEX 1, Black & Veatch, Cost and Performance Data for Power Generation Technologies, Prepared for the National Renewable Energy
Laboratory, February 2012, page 73
3 ANNEX 2 Black & Veatch, Cost and Performance Data for Power Generation Technologies, Prepared for the National Renewable Energy

Laboratory, February 2012, page 86

4ANNEX 3 Marine Current Turbine Ltd., News release, 'Marine Current Turbines kicks off first tidal array for Wales', 25 March 2011
5 ANNEX 4 Frankel, Peter Dr., Marine Current Turbine Ltd., The Exploitation of Marine Currents in the Philippine 2001, page 19
6 ANNEX 5
7 ANNEX 6
8 ANNEX 7
OCEAN ROADMAPin 2011

Source: DOE
TARGET OCEAN ENERGY ROADMAP
DRAFT, FEB 2016, NREP
MW, BY LOCATION

POTENTIAL
Commissioning Year CAPACITY
Location ADDITION
2016-2020 (MW) 2021-2025 (MW) 2026-2030 (MW) (MW)
LUZON 0 25 130 155
VISAYAS 0 8 8
MINDANAO 0 6 12 17
Total 0 31 150 181

Assumptions:
•2021-2025: The capacity additions indicated based on the RE Service Contracts awarded.
•2026-2030: Aspirational targets comprising of 100 MW (70% NCF) OTEC and 50 MW (NCF
30%)Tidal Current. The OTEC target assumes that the first 10 MW OTEC expected in 2022
may acquire a one-year operational and performance data needed to design and build the
next scale up at 100 MW. The Tidal Current target at 47 MW assumes conservatively that there
might be an uncertain limits to commercially viable tidal current sites and is subject to a
resource assessment study.
CURRENT PILOT

100 kW Turbine - Kona, Hawaii

MAKAI & U.S. NAVY

50 kW Turbine – Okinawa, Japan

XENESYS & SAGA
PLANNED OTEC
As known in May 2016

PHILIPPINES CHINA HAWAII

10 MW 10 MW 10 MW

REUNION IS. MARTINIQUE

10 MW 10 MW
REPRESENTATIVE
PROJECT:
10 MW OTEC
ZAMBALES
 LOCATION MAP
NGCP transmission substation

3
1 Onshore
Offshore platform transformer
Nearest transmission line

1200 HECTARES Nearest town

OFFSHORE SITE 10 km
Submarine
power
cable

2
South China Sea
 HUGE RESOURCE
DELTA T ZAMBALES

Source: Nihous & Vega, Oct 2011

MOU SIGNING FOR OTEC ZAMBALES FEB 2015

With French President F. Hollande, French co partners (DCNS, Akuo Energy) and local
partner PNOC – Renewable Corp
10 MW OTEC
HOW
COMPETITIVE
IS A 10 MW
OTEC?
ON-GRID
OTEC IS CHEAPER THAN FUEL OIL
MERALCO’s Generation Cost above P16.35/kWh
1 USD = 44 PHP
Month GWh Purchased Price PHP/kWh Supplier
Dec 2014 3.19 43.9804 (1 USD) TMO
Nov 2014 7.39 24.7244 (56 ¢) TMO
Sep 2014 22.64 35.5994 (81¢) WSEM
Aug 2014 19.77 43.0528 (97¢) WESM
Aug 2014 14.15 16.63 (37¢) TMO
Jul 2014 178.29 16.6643 (37¢) WESM
May 2014 115.32 16.3599 (37¢) WESM
Apr 2014 86.48 28.2998 (64¢) WESM
Mar 2014 85.78 21.5949 (49¢) WESM
Feb 2014 1.92 53.4955 (1.2 USD) TMO
Jan 2014 3.94 22.1472 (50¢) TMO
Source: MERALCO website, downloaded between Mar 2014 to Feb 2015

7.0 GWh – Net output of OTEC 10 MW plant

OFF-GRID
TRUE GENERATION COSTS
Per kWh
USD
1 Palawan* 0.53
2 Siquijor*
Power Barge 113 0.44
Power Barge 116 0.57 4
3 Caluya** 0.45
4 Romblon** 0.67
3
1
2
USD = 44 PHP
Sources:
* Power Supply Agreements:
ERC Cases Nos. 2013-022 RC & 2010-087 RC, 2010, 2013
** Meller, H. GIZ: Off-grid Power Generation in the Philippines
2013
THANKS!