Geothermal power leader Energy Development Corporation (EDC) has vowed to continue to reforest Mt. Talinis in Negros Oriental as part of its massive greening efforts of the entire Negros Island.
Norreen Bautista, head of EDC’s Corporate Social Responsibility in Negros Island and Mt. Apo in Mindanao stressed that lush forests will help geothermal energy recharge its reservoir, as trees will hold and release water deep into the earth.
“Otherwise, geothermal steam fields will dry up and will not be able to produce enough steam to run its power plants,” she said.
EDC has been planting and maintaining forests in Negros Oriental where it has been generating clean, renewable, and reliable geothermal facilities for over 36 years, an EDC media release said over the weekend.