Archive for November, 2006
The original wind farm capacity of 40MW was cut in half to 20MW as stated by the PNOC-EDC (Philippine National Oil Company-
Energy Development Corporation.) The cut was attributed to high set-up cost due to the high price of steel and materials. Compounded also by the fact that they have to construct a 42 km transmission line to feed the power to the National Grid.
Even with the “capacity halving” of the planned wind farm, this is still good news. This means that the government is still pushing through with it’s plans to ween the country off of foreign oil, same with the plans of some Independent Power Producers in the country who are thinking of shifting to coal since majority of the power they produce for the National Grid runs on Bunker Fuel.
Orginal Article here
Note: This article was originally made on Sept 15, 2006
I went up to the model farm of Nestle in Tagum along the Agusan-Davao Highway in Mindanao (from Davao City drive up to Tagum then once you hit the NFA in Tagum it’s just a few more meters down the road)…. originally a coffee model farm, they decided to intercrop Jatropha Curcas with their coffee plants (which they sell at Php 5.00/cutting) The plant has now found useful life as a source of energy… before their uses were mostly medicinal, fencing, and for attracting fruit scarring beetles in commercial banana plantations (so that they won’t scratch the banana’s and lower their selling value.)
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I was watching a local farming show when the topic touched on Jatropha Curcas. It turns out that a lot of people have been heading to the DENR and asking about Jatropha Curcas, the problem was that the local government units were unprepared to answer the barrage questions. So the DENR has stepped up to train their personnel to answer the common folks questions. What was surprising was on the last part of the show the host mentioned that people can register to plant Jatropha in public idle lands.
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