ENERGY CROP PLANTATIONS
Energy Crop Plantations
Romblon State University (RSU)
RSU has a nursery, biotechnology laboratories and more than 240 acres of land available for test-growing the Beema-bamboo and to evaluate the specifics of growing this bamboo commercially in the Philippines. The land will be sufficient to supply feedstock for a 1MW/h gasifier which will assist the university to meet its infrastructure expansion program
Land intended for the Beema bamboo plantation on Romblon Island.
Large Coconut Plantations
Coconut plantations in many areas of the Philippines have now reached the end of their economic life-span. Replanting programs have been have not been adopted on a large scale which has resulted in a significant loss of revenue for the estimated 1 million coconut farmers.
Clenergen intends to intercrop Beema bamboo on the coconut plantations and reclaim unproductive for the purpose of producing wood pellets for both export market and domestic use.
Clenergen is conducting field trials on the feasibility of intercropping Beema. Initial tests have shown that the light density, spacing, and soil are all suitable for the cultivation of bamboo. It has been estimated that in order to 1MW of electricity, 750 acres of coconut plantation lands will be required to produce sufficient volume of wood chips. The wood chips produced will also be processed to wood pellets and exported throughout Asia, Korea and Japan.
50 year old coconut trees intercropped with banana.
