A second solar power plant to be built

CEBU, Philippines - The day after the successful commissioning of the 22-megawatt San Carlos Solar power plant in San Carlos City, the San Carlos Solar Energy Incorporated (SACASOL) breaks ground for yet another solar project, this time in La Carlota City, Negros Occidental.

SACASOL officials, led by their president Jose Maria Zabaleta Jr., partners Roberto Cuenca and the Thomas Lloyd Group chair Michael Sieg with Energy Assistant Secretary Daniel Ariaso, laid down the time capsule that marks the start the construction of the 18-megawatt solar farm at Barangay Cubay in La Carlota City.

Investment cost for this latest project is worth P1.8 billion, providing for the 72,000 modules or solar panels making it one of the largest solar farms in the country today, said Ariaso in a PIA-6 report.

“The DOE has always reckoned renewable energy as one of the department’s substantial arm in the development of the nation’s energy capacity; because with power, people and communities move,” he said.

Zabaleta, for his part, disclosed that, after La Carlota, SACASOL will also build solar farms in Manapla town, this province, and in Bais City in Negros Oriental. “We make sure we first meet the growing needs of power in Negros, Bacolod, Dumaguete, Iloilo and Cebu before going to other parts of the country,” he said. —(FREEMAN)