PHL Power Plants in Google Map

'There is no known exhaustive locational map of Philippine power plants on-line. So, from this need, I took my free time to work.

From Nick Nichols post on "Philippine Power Plants – Carbon Emissions", I got the link to Carbon Monitoring for Action (CARMA). CARMA has a massive database for power plants' carbon emission which also contains locations of the plants using latitude and longitude. Their database on the generating plants in the Philippines are around 512 power plants. The list includes generation connected to the transmission grid, embedded generation and some generation used by industrial and commercial facilities. Though they have that number of plants, only about 250 plants have specific location.

I utilized an online tool to generate the KML file for Google Map which is free from Earth Point. The tool requires a spreadsheet format of the dataset which was prepared in OpenOffice Calc, a free software. The KML file generated is also compatible with Google Earth.

Here are the figures of the mapping of the power plants.

PHL Luzon Power Plants

View PHL Luzon Power Plants in a larger map

PHL Visayas-Mindanao Power Plants

View PHL Vis-Min Power Plants in a larger map

There are ways to improve this work. Classify the power plants using color code by fuel type, grid or distribution or industrial connected, or by classifying them by capacity level or by classifying the plants' cost of power.

The keyword here is FREE. Free time. Free data. Free tools. Good project!

Update: I categorized the power plants by region -- Luzon and Vis-Min. The map displays are having error on this blog because of the limitation of number of rows read by Earth Point. 03-25-2011