Monday, July 23, 2012

Philippines:

Local Geothermal Already Nearing Limit (Manila Bulletin)

While the Philippine government is still dreaming to maximize development of geothermal resources, experts regrettably noted that the country is already nearing its limit on that sphere.

Project operators affiliated with the International Geothermal Association have noted that the estimated geothermal resource of the country is at 4,000 MWe; and 1,966 MWe are already on commercial operations.

“The Philippines has an estimated 4,000 MWe of geothermal resources and about 1,900 MW of this potential is already commercialized … this suggests that almost half of the geothermal potential of the Philippines has been developed already,” project operators said.

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