AboitizPower greenlights new 17MW Binary Geothermal Plant
ABOITIZ Power Corporation (AboitizPower), through its subsidiary AP Renewables Inc., has greenlighted the new Tiwi Binary Geothermal Power Plant Project, which is a novel solution that improves the country’s overall thermal efficiency.
Following its groundbreaking on January 17 in Tiwi, Albay, the soon-torise 17-megawatt (MW) binary plant will be built from the ground up with an entirely new binary plant system, pipes, and transmission line. Geothermal energy, a form of renewable energy, comes from the earth’s heat and is produced by drilling production wells into the ground to tap hightemperature fluids from geothermal reservoirs. Residual heat from the hot brine side of the geothermal production process, otherwise unutilized before reinjecting back to the earth, is harvested to produce electricity through the binary geothermal power plant.
The concept of recovering heat from the geothermal brine and converting it into electricity, a novel solution that improves its overall thermal efficiency. In addition, the binary plant has no emission to the environment as its binary fluid operates in a closed-loop system.
It is within the 1.5-hectare of land where the Tiwi Geothermal Power Plant, the first and oldest geothermal power plant in the Philippines, is located. Construction on the binary plant is targeted for completion by the end of 2023.
APRI President and COO Jeffrey Estrella and AP COO for Renewable Energy Generation Alexander Coo, together with the Department of Energy (DOE) Assistant Secretary Mario Marasigan led the ground-breaking ceremony.
APRI President and COO Jeffrey Estrella explained, “The Tiwi Binary
Power Plant is a facility designed to extract the recoverable heat from the geothermal brine that is processed in a closed-loop system where no harmful gas or liquid is being emitted, nor any waste products are discharged to the atmosphere.”
The APRI Tiwi Binary Project is one of the testaments to AboitizPower’s ambition to grow its Cleanergy attributable capacity by the end of the decade. Cleanergy is AboitizPower’s renewable energy (RE) solutions brand. Through Cleanergy facilities across the country, power derived