Barry Berman, right, with his team pose for a photo in front of some of their equipment in Maryland, USA. Photo courtesy of Mar Supnad
BALANGA CITY — An American company has signed a memorandum of understanding with the provincial government for the setting-up in Bataan of a multi-billion-peso waste-to-energy (WTE) power plantunder the public-private-partnership scheme.
Mar Supnad, provincial consultant to Gov. Albert Garcia, on Sunday said the New-York-based AgriPower, Inc. was willing to invest $500 million for the project that could generate 100 megawatts of electricity.
Supnad, also a local editor, said he facilitated the venture that paved the way for AgriPower chief executive officer Barry Berman and the governor formally signing the MOU last month.
He said that he was instructed by Garcia to get in touch with Mayor Jopet Inton of Hermosa, Bataan where the proposed plant will rise.
“The governor was thankful to Berman for considering Bataan for the big project,” Supnad said.
He described AgriPower as a leading company in the United States that he said has already set up more than 60 WTE “Heat only” systems and has been operating in the U.S. and Canada for more than 12 years.
Supnad said Berman has offered AgriPower’s unique double combustion chamber, clean technology, integrated, combined heat and power, WTE systems as a turnkey package.
It includes, he said, 100 mgw combined heat and power systems, two 1,000 tons per day waste-to-value sorting modules, and five 100 tons per day one-day composting modules.
