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With several geothermal power plants in the Philippines (including in Bicol, Leyte, Negros Island, and Mindanao), Energy Development Corporation provides 62% (or 1,200 MW) of the country’s total installed geothermal capacity. [1]
The first geothermal area to be exploited for commercial electricity generation was The Geysers, a complex of 22 geothermal power stations located in Sonoma and Lake counties of California, which was commissioned in September 1960. [1]
Energy Development Corporation (EDC) is the largest geothermal producer in the Philippines and the second largest in the world. Today, it accounts for more than 60% of the installed geothermal capacity in the Philippines. Its steam fields are located in the provinces of Leyte, Negros Oriental, Bicol, and North Cotabato.
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[3] [5] [6] The company's power generation unit is engaged in operations of solar, coal, oil, hydroelectric, and geothermal facilities. [7] [8] [9] On July 16, 2007, it became a publicly-listed company on the Philippine Stock Exchange with an initial public offering of 1.8 billion shares out of 7.2 billion registered common shares. [5] [10]
Other companies are pursuing even more ambitious and technically challenging efforts to draw heat from superhot rocks even deeper down where the temperature exceeds 400 degrees Celsius. Accessing ...
Palinpinon Geothermal Power Plant in Valencia, Negros Oriental. Geothermal power is the dominant renewable energy resource in the Philippines. [7] According to DOE, the Philippines is second largest geothermal power producer in the world behind the United States of America. DOE estimates a total potential of untapped geothermal resource is ...
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