San Miguel to convert coal plants into biomass generating facilities 732 SHARES Share it! Share TweetBy Myrna M. VelascoThe energy investment arm of San Miguel Corporation (SMC) will be converting its existing coal-fired power plants into biomass facilities that shall be feeding on rice husks on its generation of electricity. In a statement to the media, the diversifying conglomerate noted that those under consideration for conversion are the SMC plants in Limay, Bataan within Luzon grid; and Malita in Davao for Mindanao grid. “SMC will convert its existing power plants using CFB (circulating fluidized bed) clean coal technology to biomass power facility,” the company said. The Malita plant of San Miguel will have 628 megawatts capacity when completed and all units are set on commercial stream; while its Limay plant is of 600MW installed capacity.

Source: Manila Bulletin October 04, 2018 13:52 UTC