The Cebu City government yesterday launched the 100k-W Resource Recovery Facility at the Inayawan Sanitary Landfill with the aim to produce electricity for locators at the South Road Properties.
This developed as Mayor Tomas Osmeña announced that in a few weeks, the city will be signing in SRP locators “in a magnitude that will take care of the city’s financial constraints.”
Osmeña said the ReSTORETM, which would convert the landfill into a waste-to-energy treatment facility, is certainly an added boost to SRP investors, as it would eventually lower down the cost of their electricity with the subsequent launch of the power plant.
With an estimated cost of P500 million, the project will generate 10 megawatts of power, which is equivalent to 10 percent of the projected power requirement of the future locators at the SRP.
Osmeña earlier said the power produced by the landfill would be sold to SRP at 20 percent lower than the rates offered by the National Power Corporation.
Aside from this, Osmeña said with the help of the Inayawan power plant, the city would subsequently introduce “district cooling” at the SRP, a waster-to-energy air-conditioning system through an absorption process that would enable electricity consumed by air-conditioning units to be cut off by up to 80 to 85 percent. This would allow the companies to save up to 40 percent of a general rental price in an office space.
The same air-conditioning system would also be implemented for the City Hall Legislative Building. The city has awarded the project to Philippine Bi-Sciences Co. Inc., the contractor of the Inayawan power plant.
“This is a proof of concept that you can produce energy from waste...this makes the area more competitive and attractive. We are ready to compete and we have the players to support us,” the mayor said. - Joeberth M. Ocao/LPM