Solar solutions firm Spectrum, a subsidiary of Manila Electric Company (Meralco), has vouched on the cost-savings logged by its customers which have shifted energy use with solar rooftop installations.

The company indicated that several of its ‘prosumer clients’ had already proven the tangible benefits of trimmed electric bills – and their facilities could bear witness on how their business-peers as well as other customers could also opt for the same solution in powering their establishments or even homes.

Prosumers, are the league of end-users who generate their own electricity – including those with solar rooftop generating systems – that when they have surplus capacity, they can inject it to the load network of the distribution utilities so it will shore up supply availability in the grid.

Spectrum specified that in the solar rooftop installation it had done with The Orchard Golf and Country Club in Dasmariñas, Cavite; the tangible savings reported by that customer hovered at P785,000 last year.

The solar panels deployed around January 2022 in that sports and leisure complex had been for a combined installed capacity of 99.9- kilowatt-peak (kWp).

By far, electricity generation of that project already reached 125,000 kilowatt- hours (kWh) -and that resulted in at least 10,000 kWh downtrend in the facility’s monthly consumption.

Spectrum further noted that “The Orchard’s carbon footprint was reduced by around 89 tonnes, which is equivalent to planting 4,100 trees or reducing approximately 355,000 kilometers in vehicle travel per year.”

Another proof-of-concept on cost-saving pitch for solar rooftop has been Spectrum’s project with Biostar, a licensed distributor and manufacturer of animal health products that has its operations base in San Pablo City, Laguna.

That client’s rooftop facility comprises of 24.96-kWp installation at its poultry farm in Laguna that was rolled out around April last year.

Since then, Spectrum conveyed that the scale of RE-based electricity generation already summed up to 21,520 kWh; that in turn yielded savings of roughly P167,000.

In terms of trimming the customer’s carbon intensity, the equivalent cut-back in Biostar’s emissions had been pegged at 15.33 tons, “which is equivalent to planting more than 700 trees or lowering vehicle travel per year by 61,054 kilometers.”