Friday, October 10, 2014

Philippines:

Seven Geothermal Power Plants Get Service Contracts (Sun Star)

The Philippines Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded two power firms with service contracts for their seven proposed geothermal projects as of July 2014.

In the data provided by the DOE-Mindanao Field Office, the proponents of the geothermal projects are the Energy Development Corporation (EDC) and Aboitiz Power Renewables Inc. (Apri). Of the two proponents, EDC has five projects and Apri has two. The data also showed that EDC has a potential capacity of 140 MWe while Apri has yet to determine how much in potential power it can generate through a series of studies and experiments.

Of the EDC's 140 MW, these are the 30 MW Mainit Geothermal Project, 40 MW Lakewood Geothermal Prospect, 30 MW Ampiro Geothermal Power Project, 20 MW Balatukan-Balingasag Geothermal Prospect; and the 20 MW Mt. Zion Geothermal Power Project.

The locations of the projects of EDC are in the Caraga Region, Northern Mindanao, Zamboanga Peninsula, and Davao Region.

The projects of Apri are the Mt. Talomo-Tico Geothermal Power Project in the borders of North Cotabato and Davao del Sur and the Mt. Sibulan-Kapatagan Geothermal Power Project in Davao del Sur.

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