Alternat1ve notes that the San Carlos Bioenergy Project has received its P1.78 billion loan, prior to enactment of the Biofuels Bill. This represents 80% of the project cost.
This is being developed through a joint venture that includes the Bronzeoak Group of the U.K. Here’s the UK’s Foreign & Commonwealth Office’s statement on the joint venture with NDC.
Here’s my Google Earth placemark for the plant’s site.
Here are some screen captures from Google Earth.
Here’s the Clean Development Mechanism Project Design Document for the San Carlos renewable energy project. Version 1, 18/07/2006. This document also includes a transcript of the stakeholders consultation on August 2, 2006.
Bronzeoak’s project description.
San Carlos Bioenergy Inc (SCBI) is a project company formed in 2005 with the objective to produce fuel grade ethanol from sugar cane juice.
The Plant will be constructed on a 50 Ha green field site located in the eco/industrial zone of Socorro, San Carlos, Negros Occidental, Philippines. The site is situated approximately 2.5km inland from a port and 3km north of the town centre of San Carlos in the PEZA approved eco-zone (economic zone) part of the San Carlos Corridor.
The Plant will consist of four main components:
Cane Mill
To mill the cane and forward clarified cane juice to the distillery.Distillery
The distillery comprising fermentation, distillation and dehydration sections will have a capacity of approximately 100,000 l/d of anhydrous ethanol suitable for blending with gasoline. A suitable storage tank park for ethanol will facilitate truck loading. The site location may enable offshore piping for barge transportation.Power Plant
A 8-9 MW cogeneration power plant will supply all the required energy for the processes and will export any excess capacity to the local grid. Boiler feedstock will be primarily provided by the bagasse produced as a waste stream from crushing cane. In addition, methane produced by effluent treatment (anaerobic digestion) will be recovered and used as a bio-fuel in the boiler. Between 3 MW and 4 MW will be sold year round to the local co-operative.CO2 Plant
A CO2 plant will recover the high grade CO2, produced during fermentation, for sale to the beverage industry.The project will seek Kyoto protocol CDM accreditation in order to create CERs for sale to third parties.