The Philippines has just taken a huge step in minimizing its carbon footprint, by at least a million tons, with the inauguration of the largest solar farm in Luzon on Wednesday, June 16.
The Calatagan Solar Farm is a project developed, funded, constructed by Solar Philippines Power Projects Holdings Incorporate with the help of local companies such as the Philippine Business Bank, Banco de Oro, Chinabank, and Bank of Commerce which all pitched in to finance the eco-friendly venture.
Less than a year since the official ground breaking of the solar facility, Solar Philippines has completed the momentous undertaking with the help of 2,500 workers who aided in installing almost 200,000 solar panels on 400 acres of land near the base of Mount San Piro in Calatagan, Batangas.
The 63.3-megawatt solar farm is expected to operate for three decades and has enough juice to supply power for the entire Western part of Batangas.
But more than just supplying power to the west portion of the province, Solar Philippines projects that the energy that will be generated by the new solar power plant is equivalent to more than 5 million trees that would’ve been cut down for coal energy. In the process, the solar farm will lessen the country’s carbon emission by at least 1 million tons through the use of this renewable energy source.