San Carlos BioPower

San Carlos BioPower

View from above on the project site with about 210,000 m²
Location of San Carlos BioPower in Philippines
Country Philippines
Location San Carlos, Negros Occidental
Coordinates 10°30′36″N 123°25′16″E / 10.51000°N 123.42111°E / 10.51000; 123.42111Coordinates: 10°30′36″N 123°25′16″E / 10.51000°N 123.42111°E / 10.51000; 123.42111
Status Under Construction
Construction began April 2013
Commission date December 2016 (planned)
Thermal power station
Primary fuel cane trash with some grassy and woody energy crop plants
Power generation
Nameplate capacity 19.99 MW planned
Website
www.scbiopower.com

San Carlos BioPower is a biomass-fired power station under construction in San Carlos, Negros Occidental in the Philippines. When commissioned in December 2016 it will be among the biggest biomass power stations in the Philippines and will have a generating capacity of 19.99 megawatts, enough electricity to provide 212,000 people in the region’s urban centres and rural areas on the island of Negros.[1] The power plant is a cooperation between ThomasLloyd CTI Asia Holdings Pte and Bronzeoak Philippines. General Contractor is Wuxi Huaguang Electric Power Engineering.

The plant will be primary feed with cane trash with some grassy and woody energy crop plants. The feedstock utilisation[2] will bei 170,000 tonnes per year with a local feedstock availability of 1.1 to 1.7 million tonnes per year within a 40 km-radius catchment area. It will operate with a fuel mix of 100,000 tonnes sugarcane trash, 43,000 tonnes grassy biomass, 18,000 tonnes woody biomass and 8,000 tonnes of other biomass.[3] The plant will be connected to an existing 69 kV substation, 1.5 km away when operational. The power plant is expected to create 600 new jobs in the plant and 2,000 jobs in feedstock production and collection.[4]

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