Central Azucarera de San Antonio in Iloilo Philippines is a Sugar Milling company. They recently announced plans to setup a Php 1.6B ($32M) Power Plant which will have a 14 MW Capacity and will be fed by Bagasse recovered during the processing of Sugar Cane Stalks. The issue of pollutants is solved by dual scrubbers incorporated into the design of the plant which will filter and clean the exhaust gasses.
Of the total capacity generated by the plant, 9 MW will be used by the Sugar Milling Company while the remaining 5 MW will be sold to the grid. The plant is expected to be online and operating by 2008.
Not really new to use Bagasse for the milling of cane, but this is probably the first time for the Philippines to have non fossil fuel plant not using thermal or hydro as a power source to feed the National Grid.
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