RESOURCE CONSERVATION A Hedcor team member and his son participate in a tree planting activity in La Trinidad Hydro in Alapang, Benguet, which harnesses the Balili River. Generating power from renewable energy sources cannot exist in isolation from nature. In the case of hydropower plants,...
Kamog Waterworks Association President Jun Tad-o (right), together with a community member in Sablan, Benguet, showcase the community's improved water access. With a direct and reliable supply, the community resolved longstanding water collection challenges. In a country of about 115 million...
SANTO TOMAS CITY, Batangas – AP Renewables Inc. (APRI), an Aboitiz Power Corp. subsidiary, recently sponsored a basic sewing skills and entrepreneurship training program in Barangay Santa Elena here. GRADUATES of the training with their teachers and representatives from the Aboitiz Group....
SANTA CRUZ, Laguna -- Aboitiz Power Corp. subsidiary AP Renewables Inc. was named by the province of Laguna as one of its top taxpayers. APRI bagged the award after it was nominated by its host municipalities. APRI was feted by the province of Laguna for being one of its top taxpayers...
Vivant Corporation reported that its subsidiary Vivant Energy Corporation and Vena Energy have welcomed AboitizPower (AP), through its subsidiary Aboitiz Renewables Inc. (ARI), into a partnership that will develop, construct and operate a 200-megawatt (MW) wind power plant in Samar. In a disclosure...
Aboitiz Power Corporation, via its subsidiary Aboitiz Renewables Inc. (ARI), is lining up the construction of two solar power projects that will add up 383.7-megawatt aggregate capacity to its renewable energy (RE) portfolio. The projects taking off from the company’s drawing board will be the...
The Tiwi and Makiling-Bahanaw geothermal plants have started supplying the electricity requirements of American financial services company Wells Fargo through the retail electricity supplier (RES) agreement that the parties have entered into. Wells Fargo Philippines, McKinley Hill, Bonifacio Global...
The Philippine Competition Commission (PCC) has approved the acquisition by Scatec Solar ASA (Scatec Solar) of 100 percent of SN Power AS (SN Power) from the Norwegian Investment Fund for Developing Countries (Norfund). SN Power has investments in hydro-power businesses in the Philippines...
Japanese firm Mitsubishi Power, a subsidiary of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) Group, has cornered the contract for the upgrade of the 458-megawatt Makiling-Banahaw geothermal power facility that is owned and operated by AP Renewables Inc. (APRI) of the Aboitiz group. Under the deal, Mitsubishi...
Energy Secretary Alfonso G. Cusi defended the seemingly ‘negligible’ $50 million capital requirement for foreign firms entering the Philippine geothermal sector saying the figure was the scale determined by the government for prospective investment areas on offer....