In the continuing saga of the shortage of CNG for Buses, the operators of CNG buses in Metro Manila accused the Dept of Energy and Shell Philippines of collusion to ensure that the pilot CNG program for buses be declared a failure so that the operators will revert back to diesel.
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Compressed Natural Gas operators have been up in arms lately because the Shell CNG station in Mamplasan has been unable to supply the CNG needed to run their buses since October of 2010. These bus operators have invested heavily in the purchase of the buses powered by Natural Gas in order to be part of the government’s Department of Energy Natural’s Gas Vehicle Program for Public Transport (NGVPPT).
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Executive Order 449 that was signed by President Arroyo in 2006 reduced the import tariff on bioethanol from 10 percent to one percent so as to facilitate the compliance of the country to the Philippine biofuel law because local production of bioethanol was not enough to meet the country’s fuel demand.
The Biofuel Law mandates a certain percentage of bioethanol being mixed with the gasoline being sold at the pumps. In order to comply with this, oil companies are allowed to import bioethanol till the local production of bioethanol is sufficient to meet the demand. Importation of bioethanol however is to be controlled and monitored by the DOE (via the National Biofuels Board) so as to not harm the local producers of bioethanol.
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The government’s Philippine Agricultural Development and Commercial Corp announced that they would be conducting a roadshow in the United States in order to attract companies that can bring in Cellulosic Bioethanol production to the Philippines.
According to them they received word from the United States Department of Agriculture that the technology is ready for commercial applications. (This I got to see!)
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The Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) has approved last January 15th the creation of the P55 million Cavite Biofuels Ecozone applied for by the Cavite Biofuel Producers Inc (CBPI). All that’s needed now is a presidential proclamation in order to make it official as an Agro-Industrial Economic Zone.
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Philippine Independent Oil Player announced that they are looking to expand and diversify their business in 2010 by going into the alternative energy while promoting the use of biofuels and energy independence for the Philippines. Alternative Energy in the form of solar, wind, compressed natural gas (CNG), biomass, etc.
The funds for this ambitious project will be P500 million and will be sourced internally, by the infusion of new capital, from profits and depreciation.
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