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Tariff issues stall Philippine ocean energy project
2016-06-27 09:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
SciDevNet: Has the Philippines lost the opportunity to be the first country in the world to commercialise ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC)? In 2011, the Department of Energy (DOE) announced that the first OTEC plant in Zambales province will be operational in 2018. That would have made the Philippines the first country to scale up OTEC technology. OTEC generates power by converting the temperature differential between the warm surface waters and the deep cold ocean into vapour that expands under moderate...
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