Reaction time: Mark Diesendorf.
Ian Lowe's excellent review of the dangers and limitations of nuclear power addresses the key issues. Here I expand on his argument that Australia could greatly reduce its greenhouse-gas emissions without installing either nuclear power or coal with carbon capture and sequestration, Neither of these dirty and...

2 projects to boost Subic power supply.
Byline: JONAS REYES SUBIC BAY FREEPORT - The power companies here are now installing additional production facilities and improving their distribution systems in anticipation of the influx of more investments in this freeport in the next few years. Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) Administrator Armand...

Northern Power to build bottling plant cogeneration system.
Vermont-based Northern Power Systems, Inc., has been commissioned to design, build and install an ultra-reliable $1.9 million power system at the main California facility of Pokka USA, a contract bottler of a wide variety of branded American soft drinks and other beverages. The advanced 1-megawatt system --...

Phil. Sinter to build P1-B power plant.
Japanese-owned Philippine Sinter Corp., which has an existing project in Phividec Industrial Estate in Misamis Oriental, will venture into cogeneration power project at a cost of P1.032 billion. The project has been approved by the Board of Investments for incentives Based on its proposal, the...

P/$ rate closes at P40.70/$ 1.
The peso exchange rate closed lower at P40.70 to the US dollar yesterday at the Philippine Dealing & Exchange Corp. (PDEx) from P40.52 the previous day. The weighted average rate appreciated to P40.687 from P40.706. Total volume amounted to $ 718.96 million. IPVG gives up BPO firm...

Oil firm commits pumps for ethanol.
Byline: MELODY M. AGUIBA One of the countrys three major oil companies committed to putting a pump on ethanol pump in its gasoline stations to help reduce fuel price and provide a market for an abounding sugarcane supply. V. Francisco Varua, Philippine Sugar Millers Association...

Dear EarthTalk: What is "cogeneration" as a means of providing heat and power?
Cogeneration--also known as combined heat and power, distributed generation, or recycled energy--is the simultaneous production of two or more forms of energy from a single fuel source. Cogeneration power plants often operate at 50 to 70 percent higher efficiency rates than single-generation facilities. In practical terms, what...

TI eyes Subic or Clark for new $ 1-B plant.
Byline: BERNIE CAHILES-MAGKILAT American firm Texas Instruments is eyeing Subic or Clark as site for its $ 1-billion chipmaking facility that would duplicate its existing plant in Baguio City, said Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority administrator Armand C. Arreza. Arreza said that aside from SBMA, government...

KEPCO offers to expand Ilijan plant.
Byline: MYRNA M. VELASCO KEPCO Ilijan Corporation, a subsidiary of Korea Electric Power Corporation (Kepco), has put forward an unsolicited proposal to the Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management (PSALM) for the possible transfer of the supply contract of the shelved 300-megawatt San Pascual for the expansion...

Aboitiz Power, Taiwan firm to build $ 420-M coal-fed plant.
Aboitiz Power Corporation has formed a joint venture with state-run Taiwan Cogeneration Corp. to build a $ 420-million 300-megawatt coal-fired power plant next year, a top company official said on Friday. The project is aimed at partly addressing a projected power supply shortage of 1,950 MW on...