A consortium led by infrastructure holding firm Metro Pacific has proposed to convert the solid waste of Quezon City, one of the most populous cities in the metropolis, into 42 megawatts of renewable energy that can power up to 90,000 homes. The consortium has obtained “original proponent status” for this unsolicited proposal to develop a…
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DENR warned on waste-to-energy tech
ENVIRONMENTAL organizations said the government should block further approvals of waste-to-energy (wte) projects, which they said will lead to a deterioration in air quality. EcoWaste Coalition’s Ochie Tolentino said the technology will undermine the country’s effort to curb environmental degradation and pursue a low-carbon development path. The group, part of the Stop waste-to-energy (wte) Alliance,…
Salim Group revives renewable energy bid
Conglomerate Metro Pacific Investments Corp., a unit of the Salim Group of Indonesia, has revived plans to venture into renewable energy sources by developing a waste-to-energy facility in Payatas, Quezon City. Metro Pacific president Jose Ma. Lim said in an interview at the sidelines of a forum the company wpould submit an unsolicited waste-to-energy project…
List of coverage of draft RPS rules
The DOE, in its draft RPS rules, listed nine renewable energy technologies from which mandated participants can choose from: biomass, waste-to-energy, wind, solar, run-of-river hydropower, impounding hydropower, ocean energy, hybrid systems, and geothermal. The department qualified that it may later identify other technologies for inclusion upon the recommendation of the National Renewable Energy Board (NREB). Aside from…
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