Leyte, the front door of almost all typhoons entering the Philippines is targeted for jatropha propagation by the PNOC Alternative Fuels Corp (PNOC-AFC). About 100 hectares worth of land is what they want to fill with jatropha curcas which will eventually be used for biodiesel production.
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Tantuaco Enterprises of Lucena announced that their P460-million biofuel production project has received tax and non-tax incentives from the Board of Investments (BOI) for having successfully qualified as in scope of the country’s 2008 Investment Priorities Plan (IPP).
The company will produce biodiesel using copra for a raw material. The fiscal incentives offered by the government also extend towards the by products produced by the processing of biodiesel from coconut, such as their copra cake, coco-fatty acid distillate and glycerin.
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This slipped my radar, turns out that the Department of Energy (DOE) had already released the accepted biofuel and biofuel blended standards for the Philippines last Feb 3, 2009. These standards were worked upon by the Technical Committee on Petroleum Products and Additives (TCPPA) which was co-chaired by the DOE-Oil Industry Management Bureau (DOE-OIMB) and Dept of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR). It was signed by them last Jan 14, 2009.
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Oil companies are set today to increase the biofuel components of the fuel they sell at the pump in order to comply with the Philippine Biofuels Act of 2006.
This implementation of an increase in biofuel mix is covered by Circular DC2009–02-0002 of the Department of Energy. The said circular approves a 5% mixture in bioethanol with gasoline and 2% biodiesel with petrol diesel at the pumps. The decision to increase was decided upon by the National Biofuels Board(NBB) on January 19, 2009.
As stated in the Biofuel Law of the Philippines, two years after the implementation of the bill (June 8, 2007), biodiesel and bioethanol mixture being sold at the pumps should contain a mixture of 2% and 5% respectively.
Continental Airlines, fourth largest airline in the United States, successfully conducted a test flight on a Boeing 737-800 with one engine powered by a Jatropha Curcas mix.
The no-passenger flight lasted 1 hour and 45 minutes and originated from the Bush Intercontinental Airport.
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An Air New Zealand Boeing 747-400 powered by 50% jatropha curcas based jet fuel had successfully completed a flight lasting for about two hours. One engine of the 747 was fueled by a 50% blend of Jatropha Curcas based jet fuel while the remainder was your average A1 jet fuel.
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