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Sonedco: 35 years of growing a community around a sugar mill

By District Energy posted 12-12-2023 16:47

  

Mindano Times

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In 35 Years, Universal Robina Corp’s (URC) sugar mill in Kabankalan, Negros Occidental, has evolved. From being just a source of a vital food product, Sonedco has become a tight-knit community, working, living, and growing together towards a singular goal: to improve individual lives and the entire province as a whole.

The mill began producing its own electricity.  It built a biomass-fired cogeneration plant that now provides 19 megawatts to the national grid using bagasse, a byproduct of sugar milling, as fuel.

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