World’s Largest Single-Roof Geothermal Plant to Rise in Mindoro

02/20/2015 – Calapan City | The Philippines is only second to USA among the list of countries with largest geothermal power generation. More than a quarter of the country’s electricity comes from geothermal power-generating plants.

Considered as the “Pacific Ring of Fire”, the Philippines sits atop of the world’s biggest source of heat that can be converted into electricity.

The Geysers Geothermal Field in the United States is considered the world’s biggest field with the capacity of 1,808 MW, generated from 22 power plants. On the other hand, Malitbog Geothermal Power Station in Leyte is the world’s largest geothermal power plant under one roof with 232 MW, with only one power plant.

The people of Mindoro are planning to make a record by building a 400-MW single roof power plant atop Naujan Lake.

Fidel Correa of Emerging Power said that the planned geothermal power plant could supply the whole Mindoro increasing the country’s geothermal energy reliance from 27% up to 48%.

The planned power plant which will be built in Montelago Village located at the edge of Naujan Lake, will be the world’s largest single roof geothermal power plant.

With the completion of the said geothermal plant, the Philippines is a step away from USA in grabbing the first spot as the world’s leader in producing geothermal energy.

With the approaching summer season, the country will experience again some scheduled and rotational brown-outs. The planned power plant will help the whole Mindoro Island forget about the brownouts in the coming years.

The government is looking at all possible options to increase the country’s energy production without using oil and carbon.

In Silay City, local energy cooperative CENECO, with the help of DOE plans to build a 6-MW hydrothermal plant in Malogo River. The plant could supply the whole city of 130,000 people according to local news.

“We are taking all options to make energy that cannot cause global warming, and we can only do that by utilizing our natural resources”, DOE director Mario C. Marasigan said.

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/Joe Velarde/ Assisted Press Calapan

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