EDC PR 2016 (FS section)
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Financial Statement<br />
ENERGY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION<br />
(A Subsidiary of Red Vulcan Holdings Corporation)<br />
AND SUBSIDIARIES<br />
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS<br />
1. Corporate Information and Authorization for Issuance of the Consolidated Financial<br />
Statements<br />
General<br />
Energy Development Corporation (the “Parent Company” or “<strong>EDC</strong>”) was incorporated in the<br />
Philippines and registered with the Philippine Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on<br />
March 5, 1976. Beginning December 13, 2006, the common shares of <strong>EDC</strong> were listed and traded<br />
in the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE).<br />
The Parent Company and its subsidiaries (collectively referred to as the “Company”) are primarily<br />
engaged in the business of exploring, developing, and operating geothermal energy, and other<br />
indigenous renewable energy projects in the Philippines.<br />
Red Vulcan Holdings Corporation (Red Vulcan) is the parent company of <strong>EDC</strong>, while Lopez, Inc.<br />
is the ultimate parent company.<br />
Red Vulcan and Lopez, Inc. are both incorporated in the Philippines.<br />
Geothermal and Other Renewable Energy Projects<br />
<strong>EDC</strong>’s geothermal power projects consist of two principal activities: (i) the production of<br />
geothermal steam for use at <strong>EDC</strong>’s and its subsidiaries’ geothermal power plants, and (ii) the<br />
generation and sale of electricity through those geothermal power plants pursuant to “take-or-pay<br />
and take-and-pay offtake arrangements”. <strong>EDC</strong>’s steam and electricity sales are supported by<br />
medium-term to long-term offtake agreements in various forms. <strong>EDC</strong>’s steam sales are backed by<br />
long-term offtake agreements with its wholly owned subsidiaries: (i) Geothermal Resource Sales<br />
Contracts (GRSCs) with Green Core Geothermal Inc. (GCGI); and (ii) a Steam Sales Agreement<br />
(SSA) with National Power Corporation. <strong>EDC</strong> has three 25-year Power Purchase Agreements<br />
(PPAs) with National Power Corporation (NPC) covering <strong>EDC</strong>’s Unified Leyte and Mindanao<br />
Geothermal Power Projects (Mindanao I and Mindanao II). The PPAs for Unified Leyte and<br />
Mindanao I are scheduled to expire in 2022, while the PPA for Mindanao II will expire in 2024<br />
(see Notes 3 and 34). The Parent Company’s subsidiaries, namely GCGI, BGI, First Gen Hydro<br />
Power Corporation (FG Hydro) and Unified Leyte Geothermal Inc. (ULGEI), hold offtake<br />
agreements in the form of Transition Supply Contracts (TSCs), Power Supply Contracts (PSCs)<br />
and Power Supply Agreements (PSAs) with various customers, particularly electric cooperatives<br />
(see Notes 35, 36, 38 and 41). Also, FG Hydro sells electricity through ancillary service to the<br />
National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) under the Ancillary Services Procurement<br />
Agreement (ASPA). Generated electricity in excess of contracted levels is sold to the WESM.<br />
<strong>EDC</strong> holds service contracts with the Department of Energy (DOE). It has fifteen (15) geothermal<br />
contract areas, each granting <strong>EDC</strong> exclusive rights to explore, develop, and utilize the<br />
corresponding resources in the relevant contract area. <strong>EDC</strong> conducts commercial operations in the<br />
following four of its fifteen (15) geothermal contract areas:<br />
Tongonan, Kananga, Leyte – <strong>EDC</strong> operates geothermal steamfield projects in Leyte, which<br />
deliver steam to the Tongonan geothermal power plant, owned by <strong>EDC</strong>’s subsidiary GCGI,<br />
and the <strong>EDC</strong>-owned Unified Leyte geothermal power plants.<br />
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