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Negros sugar refinery to have biomass plant

By District Energy posted 09-25-2017 00:00

  

Mark L. Garcia, Manila Bulettin

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Bacolod City—The country’s largest sugar refinery is expected to finish the construction of its 64-megawatt biomass plant this year.

The Biomass Cogeneration Project of the Victorias Milling Company (VMC) in Victorias City, Negros Occidental will be finished this year. It is designed to produce power for the refinery and also export to the power grid, VMC Chief Operating Officer Minnie Chua said Saturday.

The plant will be built in the 200-hectare VMC headquarters and will run mainly on bagasse, a byproduct of sugarcane after being processed to extract sugar.

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