Over 190MW of biomass power planned for Philippines

15 December 2014
CHE Group has entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Full Advantage to
build a number of biomass-fired power plants across the Philippines.

Under the $480 million (386 million) contract, the companies will develop 16 biomass
plants totalling 191MW constructed in strategic locations in the Philippines. The facilities will
be built over the next five years, with engineering work on the first plant set to begin in Q2
2015. This is CHE Group's first biomass-to-energy project to be located in the country.

The equipment for these power plants will be manufactured and supplied by CHE Group
from Malaysia. CHE Group, which partners with European technology companies Torftech
(UK) and ERK Eckrohrkessel (Germany), has designed a system able to utilise energy crops
as biomass fuel to generate electricity.

Torche Energy, a joint venture between CHE Group and Torftech, will be the main contractor
to execute the project. It will be managed by the group's sister company, WVEL Energy.

Bronzeoak Philippines JV secures funding for $90

million 20MW biomass plant
In the Philippines, Bronzeoak Philippines, Inc. and ThomasLloyd Cleantech Infrastructure Fund plan to
invest $90 million in a 20MW biomass-fired power plant co-located at its 22MW solar farm in San Carlos.
The facilitys funding has been secured on a 30-70 basis and construction should take up to 24 months.
Chinas Wuxi Wagwang has been hired as the EPC contractor for the project.

Philippines Dept. of Energy calling for more ethanol

investment
In the Philippines, the Dept. of Energy has issued a call for more investment in biofuels following the
UNCTAD report released recently suggesting the fuel as beneficial for developing economies. The Dept.s

director says there must be more support for private sector investment in ethanol especially, and will look
into the existing barriers to investment in order to help facilitate more domestic production.

Two Philippines distillers to turn ethanol producers from Q1

2015
Singapore (Platts)--31Oct2014/927 am EDT/1327 GMT

Two Philippine potable distillers plan to sell locally produced ethanol to oil companies in the first quarter of next year,
according to sources from both firms.
Far East Alcohol Corp. President Romulo Kehyeng said Friday that it had committed to the Department of Energy that
it would sell 2 million liters (2,000 cubic meters) of fuel-grade ethanol in the first quarter of 2015.
The company's 15 million liters/year plant in Pampanga, central Luzon, will use molasses as feedstock.
"Normally, it takes six months to convert a potable distillery to a fuel-grade ethanol plant," Kehyeng said.

FEAC had applied for accreditation to sell ethanol last year. "But there were some delays at the ports.
It took around 10 shipments to get our equipment, the dehydrator, for the plant," he said. The plant "should be
operating in November," he added.
Meanwhile, Kool Company, which applied for accreditation to sell ethanol in September, said the DOE had taken
samples of its ethanol for testing last week.
"We have committed to sell 3 million liters in the first quarter, though we might increase the volume to 3.6-3.8 million
liters," a company spokesman said Friday.
Located in the Talisay sugar-growing area, Negros Occidental, Kool's plant has a nameplate capacity of 12 million
liters/year.
The inclusion of Kool Company and FEAC will raise the number of ethanol producers from six to eight; and the
Philippines' nameplate capacity for producing anhydrous ethanol from 183 million liters/year to 210 million liters/year.