Philippines / Revised Roadmap ‘Will Include Plans For Large-Scale And Small Modular Reactors’

Asian nation’s first ever nuclear plants could be online by 2032

Revised Roadmap ‘Will Include Plans For Large-Scale And Small Modular Reactors’
The Philippines has a nuclear station at Bataan, north of the capital Manila in Luzon, but it has never operated and has been mothballed.

The Philippines’ revised energy roadmap will include nuclear power with plans for the Asan nation’s first reactor units to be online by 2032 and more to follow by 2050, press reports in Manila said.

The daily Philippine Star said the Philippine Energy Plan (PEP) 2023 to 2050 will include two scenarios: a reference scenario and a clean energy scenario.

The reference scenario is based on established renewable energy targets, while the clean energy scenario includes additional capacity from nuclear energy, the repurposing of coal and the government’s recent decision to retire some of the country’s facilities.

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