NGCP, group to promote bicycle use in Guimaras

By Lenie Lectura March 8, 2021
https://businessmirror.com.ph/2021/03/08/ngcp-group-to-promote-bicycle-use-in-guimaras/

THE National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) has partnered with an organization that promotes bicycles made with locally sourced bamboo to boost ecotourism in the provincial and local governments of Guimaras.

The grid operator, under its Green Spark program, partnered with Bambike Revolution Cycles. The program stimulates positive change with the introduction of green and sustainable alternative lifestyle component to NGCP’s host communities.

“Our efforts will usher in a new ecotourism milestone in Guimaras which will be centered on biking to explore the island’s tourist destinations. Bicycling is strongly encouraged as a sustainable and ecofriendly mode of tourism. There is minimal environmental damage. The activity produces no carbon emissions, promotes health through physical movement, and requires little to no public infrastructure to support.

In addition, bamboo bicycles from Bambike use the ubiquitous, locally-sourced, and sustainable bamboo in making the bicycles, making this project uniquely Filipino,” stated the company.

In 2019, NGCP also launched the Green Spark program in the agricultural community of Brgy. Macabud, Rodriguez, Rizal, where e-vehicles complete with charging stations were provided to the community.

“NGCP’s Green Spark Program embodies what the company envisions for its communities—equipped with sustainable and eco-friendly options to drive development. Similarly, that is also what we target for transmission operations—responsive to the anticipated increase in power consumption and prepared with smart solutions to growing energy dependency,” NGCP added.