IN a bid to make its contribution in the government’s thrust against global warming and climate change, Pangea Green Energy is set to inaugurate today the Quezon City Controlled Disposal Facility Biogas Emission Reduction Project that is expected to reduce the country’s greenhouse-gas emissions.

The project—the first clean development mechanism (CDM) project in the country—is located in Area Two of Barangay Payatas in Quezon City. CDM is a flexible mechanism developed under the Kyoto Protocol wherein a developed country may invest in various abatement projects in a host developing country and, in doing so, receive credits for the carbon-emission reductions resulting from the project.

The project is expected to harvest biogas emissions, particularly methane from the 22-hectare Payatas dump site and convert such gas into less than 40 kilowatts of electricity.

The project entailed an investment of about P100 million.

The facility is also expected to lessen the country’s carbon emissions by an average of 116,339 tons a year for the next 10 years.

Last year, Pangea and the Quezon City government agreed that Pangea will install a bigger biogas- electrical engine that can produce 700 kilowatts on its third year, depending on the actual availability of biogas and the financial and technical viability of the project.

In November last year, the Department of Energy (DOE) endorsed 10 CDM projects that include four in biomass; one wind project; two waste treatment-plant projects; two hydroelectric power-plant projects; and one geothermal power-plant project.

DOE said the total greenhouse gas reduction for the ten projects has been estimated at 682,130 tons of carbon dioxide.

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IN a bid to make its contribution in the government’s thrust against global warming and climate change, Pangea Green Energy is set to inaugurate today the Quezon City Controlled Disposal Facility Biogas Emission Reduction Project that is expected to reduce the country’s greenhouse-gas emissions.

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