By Danessa O. Rivera (The Philippine
Star) | Updated October 23, 2015 - 12:00am
MANILA, Philippines - Asian Alcohol
Corp. (AAC), a unit of the Lucio Tan Group (LTG), is looking at the possibility
of putting up a wind project in its facility in Negros Occidental, a ranking
company official said.
Gerardo Tee, the overall-in-charge
of the LTG distillery operations, said AAC is undertaking a study to put up
renewable energy (RE) projects in its distillery in Negros Occidental.
One RE project being considered is a
wind farm in the area because the “wind speed is very encouraging.”
“The AAC wind farm is still being
studied. So nothing concrete there yet. It’s just something that we can embark
on if the conditions are ripe,” Tee said in a text message yesterday.
AAC, a unit under Tanduay Distillers
Inc., the liquor company under LTG, has a 10-hectare plant in Negros
Occidental, the second biggest distillery in the Philippines.
Plant facilities include aging
facilities and a modern wastewater treatment plant which converts distillery
waste into biogas energy for its power requirements.
Tee noted there are no definite
plans yet on the capacity of the wind farm.
“Normally, one wind turbine is two
MW (megawatts) to five MW. It varies depending on the technology and your power
needs,” he said.
“Two MW per turbine, but we have yet
to check the area on how many turbines we can do in AAC,” he added.
LTG has been pouring in investments
in the RE sector as part of the group’s push to significantly reduce their
carbon footprint.
During the launch of Absolut
Distillers Inc.’s (ADI) new bioethanol plant on Tuesday, Tee said the firm is
planning to invest at least half a billion pesos for a sugar mill and
co-generation plant in its facility in Lian, Batangas.
Last March, ADI inaugurated its P189-million,
two-MW solar plant in the same Batangas facility, which supplies 40 percent of
the alcohol distillery’s power requirements.
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