San Carlos BioPower

San Carlos BioPower is a biomass-fired power station under construction in San Carlos, Negros Occidental in the Philippines. When commissioned in December 2016 it will be among the biggest biomass power stations in the Philippines and will have a generating capacity of 19.99 megawatts, enough electricity to provide 212,000 people in the region’s urban centres and rural areas on the island of Negros.[1] The power plant is a cooperation between ThomasLloyd CTI Asia Holdings Pte and Bronzeoak Philippines. General Contractor is Wuxi Huaguang Electric Power Engineering.

San Carlos BioPower
View from above on the project site with about 210,000 m²
CountryPhilippines
LocationSan Carlos, Negros Occidental
Coordinates10°30′36″N 123°25′16″E
StatusUnder Construction
Construction beganApril 2013
Commission dateDecember 2016 (planned)
Thermal power station
Primary fuelCane trash with some grassy and woody energy crop plants
Power generation
Nameplate capacity19.99 MW planned
External links
Websitewww.scbiopower.com

The plant will be primary feed with cane trash with some grassy and woody energy crop plants. The feedstock utilisation[2] will bei 170,000 tonnes per year with a local feedstock availability of 1.1 to 1.7 million tonnes per year within a 40 km-radius catchment area. It will operate with a fuel mix of 100,000 tonnes sugarcane trash, 43,000 tonnes grassy biomass, 18,000 tonnes woody biomass and 8,000 tonnes of other biomass.[3] The plant will be connected to an existing 69 kV substation, 1.5 km away when operational. The power plant is expected to create 600 new jobs in the plant and 2,000 jobs in feedstock production and collection.[4]

References
  1. San Carlos Bio Power Info Page (german), Retrieved April 1, 2016
  2. San Carlos BioPower Fuel, Retrieved April 1, 2016
  3. Thomas Lloyd: Table of Fuel Supply (pdf), Retrieved April 1, 2016
  4. Embassy of the Philippines: The Philippines takes center stage at the ThomasLloyd Clean Teach Congress in Frankfurt, Retrieved April 1, 2016
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