REURASIAManagement Corporation

Manufacturing plants with fuel-fired boilers in the Philippines

Boiler and utility audits, biomass fuel switching and Scope 1 reduction without touching production reliability.

Boiler house piping at the BECIS plant, Cabuyao
Boiler house piping at the BECIS plant, Cabuyao

The problem

The fuel bill for the boiler is usually larger than the electricity bill, and it is the one nobody has modelled.

The group has a Scope 1 target. The plant has a production schedule. The two meet at the boiler.

Solar does not help a dryer that needs 180 degrees at three in the morning.

What usually applies

  • A paid boiler and utility audit: measured efficiency, fuel consumption, steam demand profile and the cost of each option, including doing nothing.
  • Fuel switching to biomass on an existing or replacement boiler, where a residue supply can be secured under contract.
  • Operation and maintenance of the boiler house under contract, with availability targets.

Audit scope and deliverables

What usually does not

  • Fuel switching without a fuel supply agreement. A biomass boiler with no contracted residue is a coal boiler by year two.
  • Electrifying process heat above about 150 degrees at current Philippine tariffs. The audit will show it.

A reference from this sector

The BECIS biomass steam plant at Cabuyao, Laguna
BECIS 18 TPH biomass boiler, Cabuyao, Laguna, 2025.

BECIS, Cabuyao, Laguna

18 TPH biomass boiler at a live industrial site

Scope
boiler firing operation and maintenance, 24/7 shifts
Team
21 operators and technicians on site
Period
2025 onwards, two-year contract
Also
boiler audits at six Knauf plants, 2022 to 2024

Read the BECIS reference

The questions we ask first

  1. 1.What fuel does the boiler burn, at what tonnage or litres per month, and at what price?
  2. 2.What is the boiler's rated capacity and age, and when was it last inspected?
  3. 3.What is the steam demand profile across a production day?
  4. 4.Is there a group carbon target, and who owns it at plant level?
  5. 5.Who signs off a fuel switch: the plant, the region or head office?

Have these to hand and the first conversation produces a number. Talk to an engineer.

Tell us about your site

What the site produces, what you pay to dispose of it, and what you pay for energy. An engineer reads it and comes back with the first step.