Solar Learning President and CEO Mr Wilson Tieng A brighter future awaits the Filipino youth and alternative learners as a new foundation has stepped up to make learning via technology more accessible for all. Solar Learning is a new educational foundation that aims to address the challenges in...
NIGHT OWL Anna Mae Lamentillo The latest report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) tells us that many of the changes that scientists have observed in the climate are unprecedented and worse, some of these changes, like continued sea level rise, are irreversible over hundreds to...
Ayala-led AC Energy Corporation (ACEN) is acquiring for US$243.3 million the equity stake of its partner UPC Renewables Asia Pacific Holdings in their Australian corporate vehicle for renewable energy (RE) projects. In a statement to the media, the Ayala firm said it will acquire the 51.6 percent...
Ayala-led AC Energy Corporation (ACEN) and its Vietnamese firm-partner AMI Renewables will be piloting the installation of battery energy storage system (BESS), as a coupling technology that shall be integrated in their 50-megawatt solar farm project in Khanh Hoa province. In a statement to the...
The country’s grand ambition for massive solar power installations could result in weaker food sustainability, because energy developments could snatch lands that could have otherwise been allocated for agricultural production, a study outcome of the Department of Energy (DOE) has shown. The DOE...
With the race for ‘green investments’ building up in the country, Citicore Power Inc. is also bent on accelerating its renewable energy (RE) installations with a target of 1,500 megawatts (MW) in the next four years. The company, which is affiliated with the Megawide group, is eyeing to shore...
Aboitiz Power Corp. will funnel a significant portion of the proceeds from its P12-billion second tranche issue to its 74-megawatt solar farm project in Pangasinan. Apart from that, the power firm indicated that the capital raising activity targets to raise fresh cash that it can use “to...
Iloilo Representative Janette Garin on Monday, Sept. 27 questioned the P1-billion worth of funds proposed by the Department of Agriculture (DA) supposedly for the government’s solar panel irrigation system (SPIS) project, saying she finds the program “untimely” and “impractical” at this...
In a tripartite deal it inked with the Department of Energy (DOE) and the Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development (DHSUD), the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) is reinforcing its support to the promotion of digital tools and green energy solutions for housing as well as community...
The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) has installed an irrigation system dependent on solar power in Isabela in a bid to help farmers suffering from drought during the dry season. DAR Sec. John Castriciones said the P1 million-worth project in Barangay Sinili in Santiago City will address the...
Ayala-led AC Energy Corporation (ACEN) has built up its fresh capital flow to US$1.0 billion, after raising US$400 million new proceeds from its green bonds offering. ACEN Logo The company said it will use the proceeds of its latest capital raising activity to finance its new renewable energy (RE)...
The Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP) granted a P115-million term loan to install six solar-powered irrigation systems (SPIS) in Taraka, one of the largest municipalities in Lanao del Sur. The SPIS will irrigate 1,200 hectares of agricultural lands and provide potable water to 26 barangays...
