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GLOBAL MONITOR
Philippines Ramping Up Use of LNG
in Gas-Fired Plants. The Philippines in
April received the country's first-ever
cargo of liquefied natural gas (LNG),
with the fuel earmarked for delivery to
a 1,200-MW gas-fired power plant. The
LNG was supplied by Vitol Asia Pte
Ltd., a supply and trading unit of global
energy trader Vitol Group. The fuel was
bought by San Miguel Global Power
Holdings and will be used at the company's
Ilijan power plant. The Philippines
has begun buying LNG to supply its
natural gas-fired power plants, which
officials said produce more than 3 GW
of the country's electricity. The country
is experiencing declining output from its
own Malampaya natural gas field. " This
is a significant milestone and we look
forward to bringing more LNG supply
from around the world to meet the rising
gas demand of the Philippines, " said
Mike Muller, president of Vitol Asia. The
Ilijan plant is located in Batangas province
about 88 miles south of Manila.
The Philippines is trying to increase its
power generation capacity as demand
for electricity rises after the coronavirus
pandemic. The Ilijan plant has been
undergoing work to improve its fuel efficiency
and ramp rate in the past year.
Officials said the first shipment was
received at Singapore-based Atlantic,
Gulf and Pacific's (AG&P's) import terminal.
The AG&P terminal is the first to
come online among seven LNG terminal
projects approved by the Philippine government.
It will have annual capacity of 5
million metric tons of fuel.
Turkey Commissions Hybrid Geothermal
Plant. A Turkish energy company
in April announced it had completed
conversion work, and commissioned
the Alasehir Geothermal Power Plant
in Manisa, Turkey, as a hybrid power
plant utilizing both geothermal and solar
power. The geothermal facility is now
supplemented with 3.75 MW of solar
power. Zorlu Energy said the combined
renewable electricity production
facility will enable more-efficient use of
renewable energy, with geothermal as
the main energy source, and solar as an
auxiliary. The solar farm features 31,200
thin-film panels, each with 115 watts of
powers, across about 15 acres of land.
" We completed the land installation
of our combined renewable electricity
generation facility, which will lead the
combined power plants in Turkey, in December
last year, put it into operation in
January, and [have now] started to supply
electricity to the system, " said Ali
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Kindap, general manager for Zorlu Energy
in charge of investments, operations,
and maintenance. " In this way, we will
provide approximately 6 million kWh of
energy per year with the commissioning
of the solar power plant at the installed
power of our Alasehir Geothermal Power
Plant, which currently has a capacity
of 45 MW. " Kindap said Zorlu Energy
will continue its investments in hybrid
power plants, and said similar conversion
efforts are ongoing at the 80-MW
Kizildere 2, and 165-MW Kizildere 3,
geothermal facilities in Turkey.
Canada Developing New Uranium
Mine to Serve Nuclear Power Program.
A new uranium mine and mill facility
in Saskatchewan province in Canada
is being developed, with the operation
expected to supply fuel for Canada's nuclear
power program. Fission Uranium
Corp. in late April said it had filed its application
to the Canadian Nuclear Safety
Commission (CNSC) for a license to
build the mine and mill at the Patterson
Lake South (PLS) high-grade uranium
project in Saskatchewan. The CNSC is
responsible for licensing and regulation
of all existing and future uranium mining
and milling operations in Canada. Fission
Uranium said it has started front-end engineering
design for the project. PLS is
on the southwest edge of the Athabasca
Basin, located in northern Saskatchewan.
The basin is considered one of the
world's leading sources of high-grade
uranium, and officials said it currently
supplies about 20% of global uranium
production. Fission Uranium earlier this
year, in a feasibility study for the project,
said the mine and mill would take
about three years to build, at a cost of
about $848 million. Costs were based on
a 10-year operating life for the mine. An
environmental assessment is underway
for the project. Ross McElroy, CEO and
president of Fission Uranium, said the
company is confident in the project as
" the fundamentals for uranium continue
to strengthen in line with the global reactor
construction boom. "
Construction Begins on Third Unit of
Egypt Nuclear Plant. Egyptian officials
in May announced the start of construction
for Unit 3 of the El Dabaa nuclear
power plant, that country's first nuclear
power facility. A construction license
for the project was issued by the Egyptian
Nuclear and Radiological Regulatory
Authority in late March. The El
Dabaa station, located about 200 miles
northwest of Cairo, when complete will
house four VVER-1200 reactors. The
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