Rita and 500 mw in San Lorenzo. The Ilijan power plant project is a joint venture between state firm National Power Corp. and the consortium led by Korean Electric Power Corp. Sta. The government estimates that the output of the gas-fed generators would account for 30 percent of our total power requirements. The gas would start flowing this June but it would be available to the power plants by October. But operating power plants is not all that the natural gas can do.
Experts say that natural gas be used as a substitute for liquefied petroleum gas used in cooking.
This means that households may soon become buyers of the Malampaya gas aside from industrial and commercial consumers. Clean gas, clean Earth An added benefit to using natural gas is its efficiency. It burns better than diesel or gasoline and contains lower levels of sulphur dioxide, carbon dioxide and nitrogen oxide. Following environmental laws, then, would not be very hard for the Malampaya consortium to do as Shell country chair Oscar Reyes has emphasized. As project leader, Shell has also been implementing livelihood and other service-oriented activities in the communities that contributed to the Malampaya project.