ILOILO CITY-- One of the country's largest power producers is looking forward to opening its training center in Barangay Ingore, Lapaz district in this city in March or in April 2018.
Jaime Azurin, president of Global Business Power Corporation (GBP), said that they are now in the final stages of their preparations for their Global Institute for Energy.
The institute is a showcase of their commitment to increase the technical competencies of engineers in operating power plants, he said.
“Increasing the technical skills of the operators will definitely redound to more efficient operations,” he said in a media interview Tuesday afternoon.
The training center will house a first-ever simulator, which alone costs around USD2 to 3 million. Amid it being a coal plant, solar panels will be installed at its rooftop to supply the center’s electricity requirement.
Once it starts operation, the training center, as soon as it meets the “highest level of standards” may accommodate fresh graduates and other engineers interested to learn about operating power plants.
“Our commitment is to develop new engineers, young engineers, new graduates so that they will be really skilled in operating power plants, which is honestly around the world is very in demand,” he cited.
He recalled that most of the 50 to 100 new engineers they hired annually for their coal-fired power plant that utilizes the circulating fluidized bed technology “have been pirated abroad.”
“We don’t prevent them from leaving,” he said.
He emphasized that they will not only continue to help them become efficient in operating power plants but will also help “our engineers to be hired abroad.”
GBP subsidiary Panay Energy Development Corporation (PEDC) owns and operates a coal-fired power plant in Lapaz district.
In addition to coal, GBP will be embarking on renewable energy, particularly solar.
“Solar right now has gone down to very competitive rates. We think that it’s the best time to enter solar and we plan to develop maybe around 100 megawatts of solar scattered all the way from Luzon and Visayas,” Azurin said. (PNA)
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