Low Carbon News in Philippines in July 2014
7 July 2014
Philippines biogas plant to utilise poultry litter
In the Philippines, First Quenzon Biogas – a consortium of local poultry owners – is developing a 6MW peak load biogas plant. The plant will be delivered by Envitec Biogas, the first contract to be signed by the company in the Philippines. The plant is expected to deliver over 24 million kWh of renewable energy once construction has finished. The project will make use of the 22,000 tonnes of poultry waste and 30,000 tonnes of rice and corn straw by using it as feedstock.
Source: http://www.bioenergy-news.com/index.php?/Industry-News?item_id=7998#sthash.m4QiXYAu.dpuf
8 July 2014
Greenergy completes sale of biomass firm stake
In the Philippines, Greenergy Holdings has sold its 60% share in Biomass Holdings. Biomass Holdings, the venture of Greenergy and investment holding firm Cleantech Projektgesellschaft, last year started building an 18MW sugarcane bagasse-fired renewable energy plant. This project, which is being constructed adjacent to the existing San Carlos ethanol plant, is slated for completion by the end of this year.
Source: http://www.bioenergy-news.com/index.php?/Industry-News?item_id=8002#sthash.C9TYgMVr.dpuf
22 July 2014
Caraga to operate biomass plant in Philippines
Caraga Renewable Energy, a subsidiary and power generation arm of Eastern Petroleum, has been awarded a contract to operate the first phase of a 47MW biomass-fired power plant in Agusan del Norte, Philippines.
Phase one of the project will generate 23.5MW renewable energy. Caraga signed the contract in the municipality of Buenavista. Expected to cost $100 million (€74 million), the plant will begin commercial operations by the end of 2016. It will be financed by a combination of debt and equity.
Source: http://www.bioenergy-news.com/index.php?/Industry-News?item_id=8066#sthash.HwybJonL.dpuf
22 July 2014
Pollution-plagued manila set to spark an electric transport revolution
In 2012, the Philippine capital’s economy lost about 2.4bn pesos a day (£32m) as a result of its traffic jams. At this rate, the country stands to lose up to P6bn a day by 2030, according to the Japanese International Corporation Agency (Jica), which has been trying to reduce this mammoth infrastructure problem.
It is not only time and money that are the issue. The millions of cars, buses, Jeepneys and motorised tricycles that crawl through the city’s arteries belch toxic black fumes into the atmosphere. Jica estimates that greenhouse gas emissions will rise to 5.72m tonnes a year by 2030, compared with 4.7m in 2012.
But all this is set to change. The president of the national Electric Vehicle Association, Rommel Juan, plans to have 1m electric vehicles on the road by 2020. With government backing and private-sector support, the Philippines could soon become a regional hub for electric public transportation.
Source: http://www.ejeepney.org/pollution-plagued-manila-set-to-spark-an-electric-transport-revolution/