CHARGING PROGRESS The solar energy facility sits on a 22-hectare property that straddles
Barangays San Vicente and Santa Cruz, Dagohoy, about 73 kilometers from the provincial capital
of Tagbilaran. —CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
TAGBILARAN CITY—Bohol, which promotes itself as a chief eco-tourist vacation spot within the nation, has opened its first and largest solar energy plant, which will help the province obtain a extra steady energy provide.
The 27-megawatt (MW) Dagohoy Photo voltaic Energy Plant by PetroGreen Vitality Corp. (PGEC) can present renewable power to about 15,000 households, or 77,400 people, mentioned PGEC in an announcement.
Inaugurated 0n Nov. 21, the power sits on a 22-hectare property that straddles Barangays San Vicente and Santa Cruz, Dagohoy, about 73 kilometers from the provincial capital of Tagbilaran.
The 22-hectare photo voltaic website hosts 1,270 photo voltaic tables consisting of 40,628 items of Trina Photo voltaic-brand panels producing 41,000 megawatt-hour of energy yearly. Will probably be linked to the Nationwide Grid Corp. of the Philippines’ (NGCP) 69-kilovolt Bohol transmission line to ship energy to the province.
Key precedence
Amongst those that attended the switch-on ceremony had been Bohol Gov. Erico Aristotle Aumentado; his spouse, Rep. Vanessa Cadorna-Aumentado of Bohol’s second district; PGEC vice chairman and chief working officer Francisco Delfin Jr.; Dagohoy Mayor Hermie Relampagos; Vitality Undersecretary Rowena Cristina Guevara; and officers of Taisei Building Firm and the NGCP.
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Aumentado gave the reassurance that solely idle lands had been chosen for the photo voltaic farms. Rice farms weren’t included, he mentioned, because the province is among the many nation’s rice producers.
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“We take into account energy technology a key precedence underneath the strategic change agenda of the provincial authorities. So as to foster development and entice investments, Bohol wants dependable and eco-friendly sources of energy that may drive our native economic system ahead and contribute to constructing a cleaner, greener future, “ the governor mentioned.
Excessive-growth space
The Dagohoy Photo voltaic Energy Mission is the corporate’s second solar energy funding after its 25 MW Bugallon photo voltaic venture in Pangasinan. Each websites had been chosen for being among the many “excessive development areas” within the nation that want further energy provide.
Bohol will get its energy from Leyte province by a submarine cable.
When Bohol was ravaged by a magnitude 7.2 earthquake in October 2013 and Supertyphoons “Yolanda” (worldwide identify: Haiyan) in November 2013 and “Odette” (Rai) in December 2021, the province was plunged into darkness. Odette toppled transmission towers that linked Bohol to the principle Visayas grid, leading to a monthlong, province-wide energy outage.
The Bohol-Leyte line is absolutely loaded at 80MW with electrical energy from Leyte and Bohol. If the transmission line tripped, greater than 80 % of Bohol would expertise energy outrage. Since Leyte’s energy provide is already congested, Aumentado mentioned Bohol can not ask for extra from the Jap Visayas province.
Cadorna-Aumentado, for her half, mentioned PGEC’s venture is aligned with the province’s imaginative and prescient of a “Inexperienced Bohol,” the place progress and environmental sustainability go hand in hand.
Guevara shared the identical sentiment, disclosing that the Division of Vitality (DOE) has awarded over 1,400 service contracts for a complete of 1,500 MW of renewable power.
“At present, with the Dagohoy Photo voltaic Energy Plant, Bohol is 20MV nearer to reaching power safety and power sustainability,” Guevara. mentioned
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The DOE is concentrating on 35-percent renewable power within the nation’s technology combine by 2030 and 50 % by 2040, a important step for the Philippines to fulfill its power calls for whereas additionally positioning the nation as an energetic participant in international local weather motion.
