Power firm explores ways to go green

A POWER company operating in the Visayas including Toledo City in Cebu is exploring ways to make its power plants more environment-friendly.

The Global Business Power Corp. (GBPC) is using “clean coal technology” in its expansion projects and are studying ways to use renewable energy in future expansions.

Mae Catherine Melchor, GBPC external affairs officer, said during a forum last week that the company’s new 82-MW power plant in Toledo City uses clean coal technology which uses a Circulating Fluidized Bed (CFB) Boiler System, reducing emissions of pollutants.

The company is also putting up two more power plants in Iloilo City equipped with the same system

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Melchor added that the company was also considering renewable energy projects.

“Our company in considering renewable energy projects but not yet now because it’s limited and we have to answer the call for the power demand,” she said.

She cited the Department of Energy (DOE) 2013 Supply-Demand Outlook wherein the Visayas electricity demand is projected to increase by 4.52 percent average annual growth rate.

The GBPC is a joint venture of Global Holdings Inc. and First Metro Investments Corp. /Correspondent Jose Santino S. Bunachita