SPDC to nearly triple the capacity of 345 MWSan Roque HEP in the Philippines

Strategic Power Development Corporation (SPDC) plans to increase the capacity of the 345 MW San Roque hydro power plant in the Philippines to 1,200 MW. SPDC is a unit of the SMC Global Power Holdings Corporation, the power business of the Filipino multinational San Miguel Corporation. The Philippines’ Department of Energy has approved SMC’s three hydropower projects with a total capacity of about 1,000 MW. These include the 100 MW Nabuangan run-of-the-river hydro project in Aphe ayao, the 500 MW Dingalan pumped storage hydroelectric plant in Aurora and the 400 MW San Roque Lower East Pumped Storage plant in Pangasinan.