Geothermal Company Helps Bring Christmas to Leyte (Philippine Information Agency)
Geothermal leader Energy Development Corporation (EDC) in cooperation with the local government of Valencia put up the Nativity scene and a giant Christmas tree as part of thanksgiving gesture this Christmas season for the town recovering from the deadly typhoon Yolanda/Haiyan.
EDC’s 701 MWe geothermal steam field in Leyte, which is the world’s largest, was not spared by the super typhoon that hit the country on November 8.
The company is still repairing damaged parts of its power plants in Leyte, including the 112.5 MWe Tongonan Geothermal Power Plant which incidentally celebrated its 30th year anniversary this year together with EDC’s 112.5 MWe Palinpinon-1 in Valencia.
EDC began repairing its damaged facilities in Leyte where it received also immediate assistance in the form of relief goods, medicines, medical missions, providing solar packs and lamp posts and lending generator sets to help rebuild the province.
Its employees in Negros Island were the first to gather and send 5,000 packs of relief goods to their colleagues and to their host communities in Ormoc the day after Yolanda hit the province.
EDC’s Negros Island Geothermal Business Unit (NIGBU), which is comprised of both its Southern and Northern Negros sites, were able to assemble more than 25,000 packs in four waves of basic relief goods, and first aid and medical supplies, courtesy of over 1,000 dedicated volunteers from its workforce as well as the different stakeholder groups from the academe, host barangays, local government units, farmers associations, the church and the Emergency Response Teams in Valencia.
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