4 Helpful Renewable Energy News Via Google Alert

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I just want to share the renewable energy reports that I recieved from August 21 to 22 through google alert. I estimated that I am receiving google alerts news relating to renewable energy 10x a day and I want to share some of it here.

Item 1 and 4 are pretty much the same and related though process differenty, it is related to bio-ethanol fuel which is of great help on agricultural industry. Renewable energy craze today will surely help the nation in combatting poverty and unemployment.

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1. San Carlos BioPower to put up 18-MW biomass plant
MANILA, Philippines - San Carlos BioPower Inc. (SCBioPower) will put up an 18-megawatt (MW) biomass plant within the San Carlos Ecozone, San Carlos City, Negros Occidental that will utilize sugarcane residues as feedstock.

2. Green energy to create jobs, increase tax revenue
Over 20,000 to 50,000 “green" jobs will be created once the Renewable Energy Act of 2008 is implemented, a power company executive said over the weekend.

First Gen vice president Aloysius Santos said that the wind industry is expected to generate 5,000 to 6,000 jobs from 220 megawatts (MW) in wind projects. Lopez-owned First Gen is developing an 86 MW wind farm in Ilocos Norte.

3. Agus-Pulangui sale to trigger higher electricity rates for Mindanao
MANILA, Philippines — The proposed privatization of 900-megawatt Agus and Pulangui hydro-power plants is being seen as an opportunity to finally reflect the true cost of electricity in the Mindanao grid and could mean higher power rates for Mindanao consumers, who have been enjoying lower rates than the rest of the country.

4. DA says Phl is ready to export sugar
QUEZON CITY, Aug. 22 (PIA) -- The Department of Agriculture (DA) said over the weekend the Philippines is poised to export at least 300,000 metric tons (MT) of raw and refined sugar this crop year (CY) due to a bumper sugarcane harvest...

... Likewise, the DA-SRA will support the development of other feasible alternative uses of sugarcane and its by-products such as bio-ethanol and power co-generation.
“As we near the realization of the full potential of sugarcane especially in biofuel, and with a more stable supply, we anticipate a more productive and profitable Philippine sugar industry,”Alcala said to over 2,000 conference delegates from Europe, India, Thailand, Malaysia, Brazil, Indonesia, China and Hongkong, Singapore, and Africa.

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Maybe you have heard lately about the problem that water hyacinth has brought to the people of Cotabato City. It clogged Rio Grande de Mindanao causing flooding problem on almost all areas of the city.


Well, President Aquino said Wednesday he will direct the Department of Energy (DoE) to review the possible use of water hyacinth as a source of biofuel.


But what is water hyacinth? (note: water hyacinth is not the same with water lily) According to wikipedia water hyacinth are a free-floating perennial aquatic plant. With broad, thick, glossy, ovate leaves, water hyacinth may rise above the surface of the water as much as 1 meter in height. The leaves are 10–20 cm across, and float above the water surface. They have long, spongy and bulbous stalks. The feathery, freely hanging roots are purple-black.


“Malaki yung incentives to go into biofuels under our various laws, so I will be asking the DoE to evaluate, tutukan kung pwedeng mai-transform, itong hyacinth into fuel, to generate electricity,” Aquino added.


I hope that this plan materialize sooner so that people from Cotabato City and nearby places would not suffer anymore from excessive flooding but would enjoy the benefits if ever all this water hyacinth are converted into biofuels.


This is an additional source of renewable energy.




source: Manila Bulletin and wikipedia