The Philippines—thanks to its spot in the Ring of Fire
zone of Pacific volcanoes—has long been one of the world's top producers of geothermal power, but years of neglect have sent the industry sliding.
Now a surge of new exploration efforts are underway in a nation that has some of the world's largest
untapped sources of volcanic heat, but which relies on coal for half its electricity.
"It's an exciting development," Enrique Nunez, the country director for Conservation International, told AFP. "In an environment where coal is king, this is good stuff".
One of the nation's freshly upgraded plants, Maibarara, puffs out white steam from shining metal stacks on a jungle-covered hillside about an hour south of Manila.
High-temperature water vapour from the Earth's red-hot underbelly is piped to the surface where it makes power-producing turbines spin.
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