Energy, Power, and Utilities Industry

[d7beast]

Originally Posted by mwg12a

Tignan mo ang draw back sa pagtatayo ng renewable source of energy gaya ng wind turbine sa article ni @d7beast. Foreign ownership, hindi welcoming atmosphere ito.

not sure how the government will re-write the consti but PPP scheme is a workaround, big local companies are already into energy generation like the AYALAs and SMCs so foreign investors can still participate but of course the constituion needed some cha-cha i don't know what is the exact term,..

[cemby]

Originally Posted by bitoy

Some structural damage and other problems caused by the earthquakes in Benguet in the 90s that led to the shutdown Ambuklao power plant in 1999.

...and add the siltation....

[Nabartek]

Originally Posted by d7beast

not sure how the government will re-write the consti but PPP scheme is a workaround, big local companies are already into energy generation like the AYALAs and SMCs so foreign investors can still participate but of course the constituion needed some cha-cha i don't know what is the exact term,..

i think an amendment will do. cha cha aka overhaul will be too expensive and time consuming. we do really have to be more open to foreign investment.

[Parchie]

Originally Posted by d7beast

not sure how the government will re-write the consti but PPP scheme is a workaround, big local companies are already into energy generation like the AYALAs and SMCs so foreign investors can still participate but of course the constituion needed some cha-cha i don't know what is the exact term,..

You nailed it there! Many PPP's (or BOT's during FVR's term) were entered into between the government and the private sector with no legal impediments before. It is a workaround and it worked before. Why not now? Now people are worried about ownership issues as an "unwelcomed" provision in the constitution? If there are no takers on these PPP under Pnoy, it cannot be blamed on the constitution, IMHO.

Nuts! It is the administration's propensity to balk on contract stipulations already perfected that keeps private companies from coming into our country and do business.

[up_mc]

PowerTrends 2011 starts today, Sept. 28 til Sept. 30, 2011 at the SMX Convention Center

[Mercato]

Originally Posted by Mercato

[Askal82]

Yeupz, and the plants will glow green as well especially at night.

[Mercato]

cool. Then we wouldn't need the moonlight anymore. This is what I saw in avant garde skyscraper designs. But if all else fails for us, why, all we gotta do is revert to the tried and tested Nuclear option.

Originally Posted by Mercato

Amongst all the pics, I had seen the Solar Supertrees of Singapore and is still under construction as of this writing. What we wish to see is a Philippine entry. With a population of 90M+ and with a high number of architecture grads, surely... But imagine this, hundreds of Philippine skyscrapers wrapped in glittering solar panels. Some skyscrapers below have combo Solar and Wind technologies. The descriptions for each building is discussed more in the article.

Solar Powered Towers: 13 Super Sunny Skyscrapers
By Steph in Art & Design, Technology & Gadgets


Nearly all sustainable architecture concepts include solar energy in some way, but not all of them do it in a big, bold way, bringing solar power to towering new heights. These 13 soaring solar powered skyscrapers incorporate solar cells in new and unexpected ways, from photovoltaic facades for existing buildings to flexible solar membranes that act as a building’s living ‘skin’.







Chicago Solar Tower



The Lighthouse, Dubai



EDITT Tower, Singapore



Stackable Solar Skyscraper, Mexico City



Solar Membrane-Covered Tower Concept



Structural Geodesics Skyscraper, Armenia



10MW Tower



Solar City Tower, Rio de Janeiro



Dubai Vertical Village



Solar Supertrees in Singapore



Landau’s Abu Dhabi Tower



Almeisan Tower, Dubai



Solar-Powered Vertical Farm on the London Bridge



CIS Solar Tower, Manchester

[InfinitiFX45]

Marubeni allots $700 million for Phl expansion

By Donnabelle L. Gatdula (The Philippine Star) Updated September 29, 2011 12:00 AM

http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx...bCategoryId=66

MANILA, Philippines - Marubeni Corp., one of the biggest trading companies in Japan, is investing more than $700 million to expand its exposure in the Philippine power industry, Energy Secretary Jose Rene Almendras said.

He said Marubeni would be pouring in more capital for the expansion of the capacities of its Pagbilao and Sual coal-fired power facilities.

“They are looking at expanding the capacities of Pagbilao and Sual. Talks are ongoing because they are also discussing the possibility of increasing the expansion. They are thinking, if they would expand further the 400-megawatt Pagbilao capacity to 600 MW,” he said.

Meanwhile, Aboitiz Power Corp. (APC), Marubeni’s partner in the 400-MW Pagbilao power plant in Quezon, disclosed to the Philippine Stock Exchange that it has signed an agreement with Marubeni in Tokyo , Japan to formalize their intention to jointly develop, build and operate another 400-MW coal-fired plant.

APC said the proposed plant is to be located within the premises of the existing 700-MW Pagbilao power plant. Estimated cost of the power plant is between $600 million to $700 million.

Marubeni is part owner of TeaM Energy, which, in turn, owns and operates the Pagbilao plant under a build and operate contract with the National Power Corp. (Napocor)

Therma Luzon Inc. (TLI), a wholly-owned subsidiary of APC, on the other hand, is the independent power producer administrator (IPPA) of the existing Pagbilao power plant. As its IPPA, TLI handles the procurement of the fuel requirement and sale of the energy generated by the plant.

Like the Pagbilao facilities, the new power plant will also run on clean coal generation technology using the circulating fluidized bed system to produce power with considerably less adverse effects to the environment.

“We are very pleased to work with Marubeni at optimizing the capacity of the Pagbilao power station. This is part of our overall goal of providing power solutions that are competitively priced,” APC president and CEO Erramon Aboitiz said.

“We expect to complete the power plant within 2015,” he added.

APC is the holding company for the Aboitiz Group’s investments in power generation, distribution, retail and power services.

Marubeni Corp. is involved in the handling of products and provision of services in a broad range of sectors. These areas encompass importing and exporting, as well as transactions in the Japanese market, related to food materials, food products, textiles, materials, pulp and paper, chemicals, energy, metals and mineral resources, transportation machinery, and offshore trading.

The Japanese firm’s activities also extend to power projects and infrastructure, plants and industrial machinery, finance, logistics and information industry, and real estate development and construction.

[InfinitiFX45]

German firms expected to invest in Phl renewable energy sector

by Donnabelle L. Gatdula (The Philippine Star) Updated October 03, 2011 12:00 AM

http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx...ticleId=733241

MANILA, Philippines - A number of German-based power firms are expected to invest in the local renewable energy industry, German embassy commercial attache to the Philippines Christof Wegner said over the weekend.

Wegner said more than 10 German private power companies are already into power business in the country.

Wegner said they expect this number to increase substantially as more and more companies have expressed interests to enter into the business of RE development.

“A lot of German companies have expressed interest, Southeast Asia as a whole is quite in the focus or interest of our renewable energy companies. They have projects in Thailand and Malaysia already - and they’re critically looking towards other countries like the Philippines and Indonesia. In terms of renewable energy, most German companies are export-oriented,” he said.

Wegner said some of the German companies are already in various stages of business ventures in the Philippines. “They are implementing projects or supplying Filipino companies who require equipment to realize their plans and there are project developments. Some are also bidding for power projects - so they’re active over the entire scope of economic activities,” he said.

On the controversies being encountered by RE, Wegner said this is just a normal process as a new system is being introduced.

He pointed out that if the Philippine would want to get involved in green energy development, it should start now as this takes a long process to develop.

“The Philippines turned towards renewable energy. At this point, things should move forward. From our experience, the decision to go into renewable energy is always a controversial one. And there’s so many issues that need to be threshed out,” he said.

[allenation]

Originally Posted by d7beast

Another news although no numbers but from EDC for REs projects lined up for implementation in mindanao,..

http://www.sunstar.com.ph/davao/loca...s-bared-169964

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10 new renewable energy projects bared
| More | Saturday, July 30, 2011

SUPPORTING the call for investments on renewable energy projects, the Energy Development Corporation (EDC) announced in Thursday's Mindanao Renewable Energy forum its 10 projects lined up for implementation.
Six geothermal projects are set to be established in Surigao del Sur, North Cotabato, Misamis Oriental, Misamis Occidental, and Zamboanga del Sur. The wind projects are planned to be located in Surigao del Norte.

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EDC senior vice president Agnes de Jesus refused to divulge the cost of these projects as these are yet on the planning stage and await approval.


EDC expects these renewable energy projects to help increase baseload capacities to address the deficit in the Davao region.

With the existing geothermal projects initiated by EDC, a savings of $5.8 billion in foreign exchange was seen displacing about 114 million barrels of fuel oil.

Renewable energy source was also opted as it also has environmental and social benefits.


De Jesus said since geothermal in the Philippines is water-based, reforestation is a centerpiece activity in operation to sustain the geothermal source.


Data showed that EDC has reforested 9,713 hectares of public lands since 1990. In 2010, it has reforested 1,071 hectares absorbing 137,000 tons of carbon gases per year of operation.


The company plans to continue to reforest 1,000 hectares a year for 10 years. (PIA/Mai Gevera)

Originally Posted by skyion

Coal is OBSOLETE for obsolete paradigms, it is a threat to an already burdened Planet with an ecology teethering to a precarious balance with consequences that those blinded by their greed, those who continue to ignore its warning signs cannot dare comprehend.

Society will have no excuse, already inventions and technologies that promises a cleaner, brighter FUTURE continue to remain unheeded and even suppressed by corporate greed. such inevitable revelations in the internet age with the international community I enjoyed chatting and sharing ideas with, a European inventor friend of mine whom I communicate and share ideas with for a decade also had his version of magnetic propulsion device and had witnessed how inventions like his were systematically suppressed by the complex mesh that even entangles with politics.

to those Dabawenyos true to their concern with the Davao Environment who wish not to remain ignorant be AWARE that such technologies already exist and with such Power of a rising and unstopable AWARE HUMANITY like Ideas whose time has come crumble down the podiums of those that for their greed wish to control and manipulate whose powers merely rely in keeping gullible society in ignorance.

among these technologies:


The Race to Zero Point Energy Part 1/11





Wilhelm Reich and Orgone Energy





Nikola Tesla's uncredited Inventions

mods, can you correct the name of the Thread if mali mali ang title. thanks.
let the debate begins!

[skyion]

yes, the issue is of NATIONAL concern, especially the alarming threat of how Mindanao being attempted to be saturated by the major contributors of global warming: Coal Fired Plants, will affect global warming-induced disturbing weather phenomenons such as deadlier flashfloods, stronger and more devastating typhoons where Luzon and Visayas regions are most vulnerable, especially that a UN study had rated the Philippines the 3rd most vulnerable country to natural disasters, in the World.

and the issue as to whether the present administration's jejemonic solution of addressing El Nino induced power shortage in Mindanao by saturating it with Coal Plants that are notoriously major contributors to global warming that caused El Nino is well, jejemonic.

[death327]

There is no debate here! Go Nuclear!

[Parchie]

Originally Posted by skyion

yes, the issue is of NATIONAL concern, especially the alarming threat of how Mindanao being attempted to be saturated by the major contributors of global warming: Coal Fired Plants, will affect global warming-induced disturbing weather phenomenons such as deadlier flashfloods, stronger and more devastating typhoons where Luzon and Visayas regions are most vulnerable, especially that a UN study had rated the Philippines the 3rd most vulnerable country to natural disasters, in the World.

and the issue as to whether the present administration's jejemonic solution of addressing El Nino induced power shortage in Mindanao by saturating it with Coal Plants that are notoriously major contributors to global warming that caused El Nino is well, jejemonic.

Please enlighten us more on your claims. I know the space here is too small but just a few "pertinent" figures/links or phrases to validate your statements can do us justice.

• When you said "Mindanao being attempted to be saturated" - by Coal-fired (Power) Plants, can we have your data on the immensity of existing coal-fired power plants already in your area? "attempted to be saturated" means there are existing facilities and newer proposals to install more of the same will result into "saturation", hence my question on how big and how many coal power plants does Mindanao have? If you can, how much of that thing can we consider an area to qualify to be called "saturated"?
• Can you give us a link to confirm your statement about the correlation of your experiencing "flash floods" with "power plants that are coal-fed"? A flash flood is generally defined as a rapid onset flood of short duration with a relatively high peak discharge (World Meteorological Organization). Where does the coal-fed power plant come-in on the aforementioned process?
• Is it a new theory now that "flash flood" is a weather phenomenon and "global warming-induced" at that? I am asking this because you just said: "global warming-induced disturbing weather phenomenons such as deadlier flash floods".
• And please post to us a link of that UN study classifying our country as 3rd most vulnerable country to natural disasters. Be aware that vulnerability is a function of factors, namely: 1) risk or conditions that will impact an area, 2) exposure or the possibility of being affected by the risky condition/s, and 3) resilience or preparedness of the society to disasters (individual characteristics of people - age, race, health, income, type of dwelling unit, employment) as well as built-in disaster-mitigating infrastructures. Where did the Philippines fail in that UN study you're referring to?

I understand you are still learning how to convey your messages across efficiently as shown on how gibberish-like your post is above. That is why I am asking for clearer answers by segregating the items in bullets for ease. I hope you will be fair enough and reply as requested.

[skyion]

Originally Posted by Parchie

Please enlighten us more on your claims. I know the space here is too small but just a few "pertinent" figures/links or phrases to validate your statements can do us justice.

• When you said "Mindanao being attempted to be saturated" - by Coal-fired (Power) Plants, can we have your data on the immensity of existing coal-fired power plants already in your area? "attempted to be saturated" means there are existing facilities and newer proposals to install more of the same will result into "saturation", hence my question on how big and how many coal power plants does Mindanao have? If you can, how much of that thing can we consider an area to qualify to be called "saturated"?
• Can you give us a link to confirm your statement about the correlation of your experiencing "flash floods" with "power plants that are coal-fed"? A flash flood is generally defined as a rapid onset flood of short duration with a relatively high peak discharge (World Meteorological Organization). Where does the coal-fed power plant come-in on the aforementioned process?
• Is it a new theory now that "flash flood" is a weather phenomenon and "global warming-induced" at that? I am asking this because you just said: "global warming-induced disturbing weather phenomenons such as deadlier flash floods".
• And please post to us a link of that UN study classifying our country as 3rd most vulnerable country to natural disasters. Be aware that vulnerability is a function of factors, namely: 1) risk or conditions that will impact an area, 2) exposure or the possibility of being affected by the risky condition/s, and 3) resilience or preparedness of the society to disasters (individual characteristics of people - age, race, health, income, type of dwelling unit, employment) as well as built-in disaster-mitigating infrastructures. Where did the Philippines fail in that UN study you're referring to?

I understand you are still learning how to convey your messages across efficiently as shown on how gibberish-like your post is above. That is why I am asking for clearer answers by segregating the items in bullets for ease. I hope you will be fair enough and reply as requested.

your initial inquiry may have sounded seemingly sincere and perhaps even worth further dicussion, but it turned out a mere scratch on the surface, which exposed your real motive when you blurted iirrelevant issue (with matching bold fonts ) that otherwise only concerns grammar nazis of course to feed the irrelevance of someone else's superficial ego, when more relevant topics would have been addressed, and with that suspicious bias it's least likely any of our conversation would ever be productive with such pretentious agenda, hence deeming your position as far as I'm concerned to be lacking in merit.

I suggest instead that you bring first such grammar hang-ups to the chambers of your fellow grammar nazis and air some gas

[skyion]

6,000 sign petition vs coal power plant
| More | By Jereco O. Paloma

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

MORE than 6,000 residents, religious and community leaders, students, professionals and members of cause-oriented groups have signed a petition, asking the City Government of Davao to revoke earlier endorsement of the 300 megawatt (MW) coal-fired power plant proposed by the AboitizPower Corp.


The plant is to be set up at the boundary of Barangay Binugao in Toril and Barangay Inawayan in Sta. Cruz town in Davao del Sur.


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Dr. Jean Lindo, No-to-Coal convenor, told Sun.Star Davao, that even if the central office of the Environment Management Bureau of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (EMB-DENR) has already issued the Environmental Compliance Certificate (ECC) for the proposed coal-fired power plant, this does not mean that they cannot do anything to stop its establishment.


Lindo accompanied the group of residents from Binugao and Inawayan and representative of Panalipdan in Southern Mindanao and other groups to the regional office of DENR in Lanang to file the petition on Monday.


But the regional office of the EMB-DENR advised them to write and file their petition to its central office in Manila, instead.


Lindo said they will file the petition before the central office of EMB-DENR within the week.


Lindo said they wanted the City Council to revert its earlier decision as provided for in an approved resolution, endorsing the establishment of the plant.


"Nanghangyo jud 'mi na dili ipadayon ang pag-patukod sa planta (We are begging to stop the construction of the plant)," Lindo said.


She said their fight against the plant will not stop in organizing picket or staging rallies, but assured the public their opposition is backed by legal grounds.


Imam Ibrahim Bangun of Binugao, said they are opposing the establishment of the plant because the cemetery where their ancestors have been buried will be affected. The Muslim cemetery is within the 52-hectare property where the plant will be constructed.


"Dili jud 'mi gusto kay dili man pwedi na ibalhin-balhin ang amung mga minatay (We cannot just transfer our dead from one place to another)," Bangun said.


Bangun said should the establishment of the plant push through, at least a thousand Moro residents or 100 families in their area will be adversely affected.


Nothing to worry


Manuel Orig, Aboitiz first vice president for Mindanao affairs on Friday said the firm will address all the issues raised by the communities during the scoping.


During the same presentation, the firm stressed that part of their compliance with the ECC is the establishment of the Multipartite Monitoring Team (MMT) composed of various organizations both from the local government and non-government organizations, among others.


MMT will be headed and organized by the EMB-DENR which will monitor the firm's compliance.

http://www.sunstar.com.ph/davao/loca...r-plant-183002

[Parchie]

Originally Posted by skyion

your initial inquiry may have sounded seemingly sincere and perhaps even worth further dicussion, but it turned out a mere scratch in the surface, which exposed your real motive when you blurted iirrelevant issue (with matching bold fonts ) that otherwise only concerns grammar nazis when more relevant topics would have been addressed of course to feed the irrelevance of someone else's superficial ego, and with that bias it's least likely any of our conversation would ever be productive with such suspicious agenda, hence deeming you position as far as I'm concerned to be lacking in merit.

I suggest instead that you bring first such grammar hang-ups to the chambers of your fellow grammar nazis and air some gas

Great reply! You toured the whole Philippines before you say "I apologize, I juggled with the words and phrases in my post". And ego is the culprit? Why can't people choose the areas that they are very much knowledgeable about? Why encroach into places you don't have an iota of an idea? May pa nazi-nazi pa! Stick-on to the topic: why did you say what you said in that post? Proofs, anecdotal or research results will do. Otherwise, your just one of those geeks trying to post highfalutin phrases with nothing but air! While I ascribe to the freedoms we are given, it is your responsibility to tell everything you want as long as they are not misleading. Gets mo?
P.S.
Or read my signature and comprehend.

[skyion]

Originally Posted by Parchie

Great reply! You toured the whole Philippines before you say "I apologize, I juggled with the words and phrases in my post". And ego is the culprit? Why can't people choose the areas that they are very much knowledgeable about? Why encroach into places you don't have an iota of an idea? May pa nazi-nazi pa! Stick-on to the topic: why did you say what you said in that post? Proofs, anecdotal or research results will do. Otherwise, your just one of those geeks trying to post highfalutin phrases with nothing but air! While I ascribe to the freedoms we are given, it is your responsibility to tell everything you want as long as they are not misleading. Gets mo?
P.S.
Or read my signature and comprehend.

Ignorance is bold, knowledge is reserved. ----Thucydides, Greek historian, "The Peloponnesian War"

er, how "bold" of you

[Parchie]

It's for you. See how brave people spout things when they don't have any inkling on what they are posting!

[skyion]

Coal and Global Warming
David G. Hawkins, Natural Resources Defense Council
Submission to Senate Energy Committee
February 16, 2005


Executive Summary for Coal Conference
The future of coal in the U.S. electric power sector is an uncertain one. The major cause
of this uncertainty is the government’s failure to define future requirements for limiting
greenhouse gas emissions, especially carbon dioxide (CO2). Coal is the fossil fuel with
the highest uncontrolled CO2 emission rate and coal power plants are expensive, longlived
investments. Key decision makers understand that the problem of global warming
will need to be addressed within the time needed to recoup investments in power projects
now in the planning stage. Since the status quo is unstable and future requirements for
coal plants and other emission sources are inevitable but unclear, there will be increasing
hesitation to commit the large amounts of capital required for new coal projects.
While the U.S. EIA and others predict strong growth in new U.S. coal capacity, those
predictions are based on computer models that ignore the changing policy landscape.
Community opposition, new requirements from utility commissions and other state
agencies, litigation, and investor hedging all are likely to result in substantially less new
coal capacity being built unless and until requirements for global warming emission
control are defined.

The environmental and economic penalties of further delay in establishing programs to
limit global warming emissions are severe. The long life of CO2 in the atmosphere and
the long lives of energy investments, especially coal-fired power plants, create a buildup
of heat-trapping gases that will continue to produce adverse impacts long after emission
reduction efforts begin. The longer we wait to start cutting emissions, the more costly
and disruptive it will be to avoid any particular climate protection goal. To avoid harmful
impacts of climate change tomorrow we must begin to change investment decisions today.
Energy efficiency and renewable energy are well-known low-carbon methods that are
essential to any climate protection strategy. But technology exists to create a sustainable
path for continued coal use as well. Methods to capture CO2 from coal gasification plants
are commercially demonstrated, as is the injection of CO2 into geologic formations for
disposal. However, these systems will not be brought to market in the absence of a
program that requires limits on CO2 emissions. Combining such limits with financial
incentives to deploy CO2 capture and storage technologies is economically and politically
feasible and would serve a number of important strategic interests of the U.S. and its
allies.

Congress should enact such a program without further delay.

http://www.e2.org/ext/doc/hawkinscoa...39EDC27B7FE384