CANDELARIA, Quezon: Singapore Ambassador to the Philippines Kok Ling Peng led groundbreaking on Friday for the first biogas plant using agricultural waste in Barangay Santa Catalina, this town.

The 1.2-megawatt biogas power plant will use chicken manure and other agricultural waste including rice straws as fuel to produce electricity supporting the Luzon grid, according to Albert Alquiros, president of First Quezon Biogas Corporation (FQBC), a partner company in the province of Yamato Technologies based in Singapore.

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