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RP’s biggest power plant to rise in Quezon Province 05/27/2012

Sunday, May 27, 2012

RP’s biggest power plant to rise in Quezon Province

05/27/2012
Plans are afoot for the construction of the country’s largest power plant in Atimonan, Quezon, a fast-growing first-class municipality nestled in Lamon Bay that connects the northern part of Quezon to the Pacific Ocean, some 173 kilometers south of Manila.

Town Mayor Jose Mendoza said the new power plant with a 1,500-megawatt capacity when in place, would be the largest power plant ever in the Philippines. The province has other power plants in the towns of Pagbilao, Mauban and Polillo in the first district, and San Narciso in the third district or Bondoc Peninsula, Mendoza said.

He added that the power plant will be constructed next year on an 80-hectare land in Barangay Ibaba and will be fueled by liquefied natural gas (LNG). It would supply electricity to industrial, commercial and residential consumers..... MORE

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