The newly-built methane-fired power plant in Rizal province, owned and operated by the Montalban Methane Power Corporation (MMPC), will start its operations this July. The power plant, which costs around Php1.5-billion, is designed to be environmentally friendly with a technology that captures methanes and prevents the potent gas from escaping into the atmosphere. Methane is an odorless and colorless flammable gas derived from decaying wastes that could be converted to electricity.
Initially, MPPC will produce two megawatts of electricity that will be sold to the country's largest power distributor, the Manila Electric Co. (MERALCO). However, the power facility is expected to produce up to 15 megawatts of electricity annually for a period of five years once it becomes fully operational.
The power plant will source its “clean” energy from a dumpsite in Rodriguez town. Currently, the landfill receives up to 2,500 metric tons of garbage per day.
MMPC, meanwhile, plans to qualify the waste-to-energy project under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), an arrangement under the Kyoto Protocol that allows heavy polluting countries to invest on emission-reduction projects in developing countries via trading of carbon credits or Certified Emission Reductions (CER) wherein each CER is equivalent to an emission reduction of one ton of carbon dioxide (CO2). It is expected that the project would earn at least 500,000 carbon credits.
Once registered, the MPPC project will be the fourth largest landfill gas-to-power CDM project in the world.
Initially, MPPC will produce two megawatts of electricity that will be sold to the country's largest power distributor, the Manila Electric Co. (MERALCO). However, the power facility is expected to produce up to 15 megawatts of electricity annually for a period of five years once it becomes fully operational.
The power plant will source its “clean” energy from a dumpsite in Rodriguez town. Currently, the landfill receives up to 2,500 metric tons of garbage per day.
MMPC, meanwhile, plans to qualify the waste-to-energy project under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), an arrangement under the Kyoto Protocol that allows heavy polluting countries to invest on emission-reduction projects in developing countries via trading of carbon credits or Certified Emission Reductions (CER) wherein each CER is equivalent to an emission reduction of one ton of carbon dioxide (CO2). It is expected that the project would earn at least 500,000 carbon credits.
Once registered, the MPPC project will be the fourth largest landfill gas-to-power CDM project in the world.
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