Conversion of wastes into useful energy has been gaining allure in the field of renewable energy developments.
The latest company to announce its planned waste-to-energy facility is local firm Emerging Power Inc. (EPI) for a venture it has been targeting in Cagayan de Oro.
The company announced that it has already “taken initial steps to launch a project that will convert the Cagayan de Oro sanitary landfill into a source of renewable energy.”
The planned investment was outlined in a memorandum of understanding (MOU) which initially calls for the conduct of a feasibility study on the proposed facility.
Project sponsor EPI said it inked the pact with the city government of Cagayan de Oro and Waste Recovery Boras (WRB), a tie-up between the Boras City of Sweden, its Boras Energy and Environment and the WRB Technical Research Institute of Sweden and the University of Boras.
The agreement provides that EPI will be given the right to develop “a full solid waste management plan that will specifically address Cagayan de Oro’s 10-hectare landfill in Barangay Carmen.”
EPI project manager Nenette Capaning said they tapped WRB “to oversee the training for and the conduct of the feasibility study.”
Additionally, EPI and WRB tapped another Swedish firm Biogas Systems for the eventual development of the waste-to-energy project.
“Biogas Systems is willing to collaborate as technology provider and investor for waste-to-energy projects in the Philippines,’ Capaning said.
Cagayan de Oro City Mayor Oscar Moreno intimated that their concurrence to this project is a manifestation that they are serious “about managing (their) solid waste and this development will greatly help the city in addressing its current solid waste problems.” source
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