Cebu City – Two power companies have express interest to invest in Cebu by building clean and renewable energy in the province.
Officials of the Japanese firm Gaby Co. Ltd. and Amihan Energy Corporation (AEC) separately met with Cebu Gov. Hilario Davide III to discuss their intentions to build clean and renewable energy in the province.
Gaby President Kazunori Suzuki asked for the governor’s support on the photovoltaic generation systems field that the company is seeking to put up in Cebu. Gaby is a Japanese firm that deals with sales and installment of the photovoltaic generation systems in Japan. It has branch offices in Saipan and Guam, USA.
Gaby applied for accreditation with Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), which will implement the project through its Official Development Assistance (ODA) program organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Japanese Government.
The Japanese government will fund the project and help the local government units put up the solar power system on the condition that the project shall be established in areas where there is no power yet.
The responsibility of the LGU under this program is to connect the power supply to the household. The size of the power system would be dependent on the size of the identified barangay.
Davide said the offer is timely as the province is looking for alternative sources of power.
Meanwhile, AEC informed Davide that they would establish their wind farm in the highlands of Balamban, Toledo City, and Sudlon II, Cebu City.
AEC, the MudajaBerhad of Malaysia and Dongturbo Electric Company Ltd. of China briefed the governor of their plans during a meeting at the Cebu Provincial Capitol.
The wind farm is said to produce about 200 megawatts of power. Its construction will be done in two to three months and hopes to produce electricity before the year ends.
Davide said Cebu welcomes the influx of power stakeholders interested to give the province alternative energy reserves.
Meanwhile, Vice Governor Agnes Magpale said the provincial government will see to it that safety measures in the oil drilling project in the town of Aloguinsan would be implemented in response to the petition filed by three caused-oriented groups before the Cebu Provincial Government, urging them to stop the oil exploration in the town.
In their petition paper, the Philippine Earth Justice Center, Inc. (PEDC), Freedom from Debt Coalition (FDC)-Cebu and Central Visayas Farmers Development Center (Fardec) called for a halt in the “ongoing oil exploration” in Aloguinsan citing “legal, social, health, climate and ecological grounds.”
However, Magpale appealed to give the operation a chance. source
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