Filipino-French biomass goes off grid
The Philippines-based National Power (Napocor) is joining with French company Enertine to provide biomass-derived power in the archipelago’s non-grid areas.
Agricultural by-products such as rice and sugarcane husks, crop stalks, logging residues and dead wood will be used to fuel more remote areas.
The project will be carried out under Napocor’s Small Power Utilities Group (SPUG), which is the company’s electrification programme. SPUG provides electricity to remote islands and far-flung island villages not connected to any of the country’s three main grids.
The biomass facilities will be installed in different locations and may combine for a total capacity of up to 42MW.
SPUG operates 304 generating units with a total capacity of about 129 megawatts. Operations include a hydroelectric plant and a hybrid wind turbine farm. It also serves 78 island grids and eight isolated grids providing electricity to 42 customers consisting of 39 electric cooperatives and three local government units.
Agricultural by-products such as rice and sugarcane husks, crop stalks, logging residues and dead wood will be used to fuel more remote areas.
The project will be carried out under Napocor’s Small Power Utilities Group (SPUG), which is the company’s electrification programme. SPUG provides electricity to remote islands and far-flung island villages not connected to any of the country’s three main grids.
The biomass facilities will be installed in different locations and may combine for a total capacity of up to 42MW.
SPUG operates 304 generating units with a total capacity of about 129 megawatts. Operations include a hydroelectric plant and a hybrid wind turbine farm. It also serves 78 island grids and eight isolated grids providing electricity to 42 customers consisting of 39 electric cooperatives and three local government units.
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