South Negros BioPower

South Negros BioPower is a biomass-fired power station in La Carlota, Negros Occidental in the Philippines. It is among the biggest biomass power stations in the Philippines and has a generating capacity of 25 megawatts, enough electricity to provide 265,000 people[1] in the region’s urban centres and rural areas on the island of Negros. The estimated reduction of CO2 is more than 20,000 metric tons per year. The power plant is a cooperation between ThomasLloyd CTI Asia Holdings Pte and Bronzeoak Philippines. General Contractor is Wuxi Huaguang Electric Power Engineering.

South Negros BioPower
CountryPhilippines
LocationLa Carlota, Negros Occidental
Coordinates10°25′23″N 122°56′13″E
Statusoperational
Construction began1st quarter 2016
Commission date4th quarter 2017
Thermal power station
Primary fuelCane trash with some grassy and woody energy crop plants
Power generation
Nameplate capacity25 MW
External links
Websitewww.snbiopower.com

The plant is primary feed with cane trash with some grassy and woody energy crop plants. The feedstock utilisation[2] is 220,000 tonnes per year with a local feedstock availability of 1.4 million tonnes per year within a 50 km-radius catchment area. The plant is connected to an existing 69 kV substation in San Enrique, 8 km away when operational. The power plant created 675 new jobs in the plant and 2,500 jobs in feedstock production and collection.[3]

The plant has been chosen by the Philippine government as an "Awarded Biomass Project" in January 2015.[4]

See also

References
  1. Embassy of the Philippines: The Philippines takes center stage at the ThomasLloyd Clean Teach Congress in Frankfurt, Retrieved April 6, 2016
  2. "South Negros BioPower - Fuel". South Negros Biopower, Inc. Retrieved 7 April 2016.
  3. "South Negros Biopower". ThomasLloyd Group. Retrieved 7 April 2016.
  4. Department of Energy of the Philippines: Awarded Biomass Projects (pdf), Retrieved December 12, 2019
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