GreenFire Energy Inc. retains a representative for geothermal projects in the Philippines

Bert has 40 years of experience in the renewable energy sector in the Philippines having worked in government and private industry. He has a wealth of knowledge and deep relationships in the energy sector. He served as director for Energy Planning in the Department of Energy where he was involved in pioneering work in geothermal steam pricing, electricity cost structures and transfer pricing, national energy balance reporting and conducted the first nationwide household energy survey. Bert was involved with the EU-ASEAN Cogen Programme which led to the first biomass power plant for a rice mill in the Philippines. He secured local funding for the Philippine Wind Atlas and was involved in the first utility scale, grid-connected solar power plant and the 7 MW Bubunawan mini hydropower plant. Bert was the former president of the Biomass Renewable Energy Alliance and member of the National Renewable Energy Board representing private developers.

“I am excited to work with GreenFire Energy as its GreenLoop technology has the potential for increasing the commerciality of local geothermal resources. Geo-thermal power plants have the highest capacity factors and lowest generation costs for baseload power plants in the Philippines,” said Albert R. Dalusung III.

“The Philippines is an important region for GreenFire Energy. We recently announced our second project with Energy Development Corporation which is funded by the U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA). The project is applying GreenFire’s GreenLoop^TM technology to boost geothermal power production at an idle well and rollout the technology in other geothermal wells at the Leyte Geothermal Field. Bert Dalusung has the experience and relationships in the Philippines to identify opportunities and service existing geothermal projects in the region,” added Joseph Scherer, GreenFire Energy Inc. CEO.

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