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Rivera (The Philippine Star) - July 12, 2018 - 12:00am
MANILA, Philippines —
The Department of Energy (DOE) was cleared to tap the Asian Development Bank’s
Clean Technology Fund (CTF) to put up solar charging stations in support of the
electric tricycle (e-trike) project.
DOE Assistant Secretary
Leonido Pulido said the agency was given the go ahead to use the CTF to install
solar charging stations in critical locations across the country.
“We have to bid it out.
So that’s going to take a while. We’re waiting for certain consultants to come
in and help us come up with a plan and the terms of reference,” he said.
The consultant will
help the DOE to lay down the criteria to identify the technology and the
location to construct the solar charging stations.
Pulido said the
criteria is important in making the installation of solar charging stations
objective and transparent. “It has to meet the objectives of the e-trike
project,” he said.
The PIC was awarded to
SMEC International Pty. Ltd., which provides global consultancy expertise in
urban, infrastructure and management advisory through its network of 120
offices in more than 40 countries throughout Asia, Australasia, Africa,
UK, the Middle East and the Americas.
Once issues are
threshed out, the DOE will start bidding out the contract to put up the
charging stations. The DOE is given a period of six months to do the project.
The DOE earlier secured
approval to extend the loan and roll out the rest of the 3,000 e-trikes under
the government’s joint project with the ADB until May 2019.
The agency was supposed
to distribute the e-trikes only until June, but the deadline for the rollout of
units had been extended to next year.
Out of the 3,000 e-trikes
ready for deployment, around 1,200 are committed for distribution to several
LGUs in Marawi, Valenzuela, Muntinlupa, Las Piñas and Pateros.
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