By:
Ronnel W. Domingo - 07:05 AM September 18, 2017
Solar panel producer
Solar Philippines Power Project Holdings is urging communities of consumers to
form cooperatives that would generate electricity, saying such a business model
may be key in helping eradicate poverty.
The company said it was
in discussions with various communities to put up “solar cooperatives,” which
could produce electricity at lower cost and greater reliability than existing
power cooperatives.
Solar Philippines
president Leandro Leviste said the solar cooperative might be integrated with
irrigation and other initiatives to create jobs.
“We’ve received thousands of e-mails from
Filipinos asking for Solar with Batteries in provinces with expensive
electricity and regular brownouts,” Leviste said.
Leviste said Solar
Philippines recently submitted proposals to power distributors on shifting to
solar farms as their source of electricity instead of the current suppliers,
which are commonly operators of coal-fired power plants.
He said they could put
up farms with a capacity of 5,000 megawatts (MW) and offer electricity “for as
low as P2.99 per kilowatt hour (kWh), the lowest rate of any new power plant”
in the country.
Leviste said that if
utilities would accept Solar’s proposal, the price of electricity could be
reduced by 30 percent, allowing a typical household to lower its monthly bill
by P1,000.
Solar Philippines’
showcase project involves setting up a 4-MW solar-battery farm in Paluan,
Occidental Mindoro touted to become the world’s biggest island solar-battery
micro-grid.
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