BAGUIO CITY: A renewable energy company wants to put up a multi-billion waste-to-energy plant that aims to covert some 500 tons of garbage to 10 megawatts of power to be sold to the Benguet Electric Cooperative (Beneco), a local power distributor.

Robert John Sobrepeña, chairman of the Metro Global Renewable Energy Corp., said that the waste-to-energy plant will be constructed within an 8,000-square-meter private property in Sablan, Benguet to address the garbage disposal woes of the Baguio-La Trinidad-Itogon-Sablan-Tuba-Tublay (Blistt) local governments.