Lopez-controlled First Gen Corp. on Friday launched its 414-megawatt (MW) San Gabriel combined-cycle and 97-MW Avion open cycle natural gas-fired power plants in Santa Rita, Batangas, both of which run on natural gas — fossil fuel that produces, on average, 70 percent less emissions than coal when burned.
“It’s critical that the country looks ahead and anticipates the trajectory of technology and other forces ultimately steering us toward a decarbonized world,” First Gen chair and CEO Federico Lopez said in his speech during the plants’ inauguration. “We have the opportunity to leapfrog old 20th century technology, like coal plants, and instead build for the 21st.”
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