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Philippines' top energy firms partner for $3.3bn LNG facility

Aboitiz Power, Meralco to invest in San Miguel group's gas-fired power plants

Workers repair power meters atop electricity post at the main street of Quiapo city, metro Manila, in 2017.   © Reuters

MANILA (Reuters) -- Three top Philippine energy firms have partnered for the first time to form a large-scale integrated liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility, the companies said on Sunday, in a deal two of them valued at $3.3 billion.

Aboitiz Power and a subsidiary of Manila Electric (Meralco) agreed to invest in the gas-fired power plants of a unit of San Miguel Corp.: the 1,278 megawatt (MW) Ilijan power plant and a new 1,320 MW facility set to start operating by the end of the year.

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