{"id":129931,"date":"2017-11-09T21:04:12","date_gmt":"2017-11-10T02:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=129931"},"modified":"2017-11-09T21:04:12","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T02:04:12","slug":"3rd-biomass-plant-to-rise-in-negros-occidental","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/11\/09\/3rd-biomass-plant-to-rise-in-negros-occidental\/","title":{"rendered":"3rd biomass plant to rise in Negros Occidental"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_88464\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-88464\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Ph_locator_negros_occidental_bacolod.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-88464\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Ph_locator_negros_occidental_bacolod.png\" alt=\"The project, situated on a 300,000-square meter area, is also expected to create 675 new jobs at the power plant aside from the 2,500 in the agriculture sector. (Photo By Mike Gonzalez (TheCoffee) (English Wikipedia) [GFDL (http:\/\/www.gnu.org\/copyleft\/fdl.html) or CC-BY-SA-3.0)\" width=\"300\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Ph_locator_negros_occidental_bacolod.png 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Ph_locator_negros_occidental_bacolod-257x300.png 257w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-88464\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The project, situated on a 300,000-square meter area, is also expected to create 675 new jobs at the power plant aside from the 2,500 in the agriculture sector.<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File%3APh_locator_negros_occidental_bacolod.png\"> (Photo By Mike Gonzalez (TheCoffee) (English Wikipedia) [GFDL (http:\/\/www.gnu.org\/copyleft\/fdl.html) or CC-BY-SA-3.0)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>BACOLOD CITY\u2014A third biomass plant in Negros Occidental under major investor, ThomasLloyd Group, will soon rise in the northern town of Manapla.<\/p>\n<p>Governor Alfredo Mara\u00f1on Jr. and Mayor Lourdes Escalante joined Michael Sieg, chairman of Thomas Lloyd Group; and Juan Xavier Zabaleta, chairman of North Negros Biopower Inc., in the groundbreaking rites Wednesday for the 25-megawatt power plant project in Hacienda Bariw, Barangay Santa Teresa.<\/p>\n<p>Developed through local firm North Negros BioPower Inc., The project is part of a package of three sister plants in the province, including the 25-MW South Negros BioPower in La Carlota City and 20-MW San Carlos BioPower in San Carlos City.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the North Negros Biopower Inc. said its latest biomass project in the province is expected to be completed in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Once operational, it will generate 185 million kilowatt hours (kWh) of electricity in a year using biofuels such as sugarcane trash and woody energy plants and will supply electricity to some 265,000 people.<\/p>\n<p>The project, situated on a 300,000-square meter area, is also expected to create 675 new jobs at the power plant aside from the 2,500 in the agriculture sector.<\/p>\n<p>The first two plants are nearing completion and scheduled to operate next year.<\/p>\n<p>Major investor ThomasLloyd is a leading global investment banking and investment management group, solely dedicated to the renewable energy sector in Asia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BACOLOD CITY\u2014A third biomass plant in Negros Occidental under major investor, ThomasLloyd Group, will soon rise in the northern town &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":86409,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[32177,32176],"class_list":["post-129931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","tag-major-investor-thomaslloyd-group","tag-third-biomass-plant-in-negros-occidental","mauthors-erwin-nicavera","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}