Solar Philippines working on Asia's 'largest solar, diesel, battery
micro-grid' without subsidies
Solar Philippines founder and CEO Leandro Leviste aims to replicate this
system with many more projects all without subsidies. Image: Solar Media.
Filipino renewable energy firm Solar Philippines is developing an off-grid
solar, battery and diesel micro-grid in the Philippines that could be the
largest of its kind in Asia, according to the company head.
Solar Philippines founder and CEO Leandro Leviste told Energy-Storage.News
that the micro-grid system on the island of Mindoro will include an 8MWh
energy storage battery, a 4MW solar PV plant and diesel capacity - enough to
power a whole town.
Leviste added: "We are going to be replicating a lot of these that are
unserved, without subsidies and without any government programmes. So we are
doing all on a deregulated basis."
He also gave new details about the nation's first utility-scale solar plant
combined with storage at Concepcion,Tarlac, which the company started
constructing in March. While it was already known that the PV project would
be 150MW, Leviste revealed that the storage element would include a 50MWh
battery. Commissioning is due in the next few months, he added.
Solar Philippines claims that this was in fact the first project to start
construction after the government's Feed-in-Tariff (FiT) programme came to
an end, under President Duterte's administration.
Today, Duterte was present to inaugurate the newly expanded Solar
Philippines solar module factory at Batangas - the first such facility in
the Philippines - that now has 800MW capacity.
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Link to Original Article:
https://www.energy-storage.news/news/solar-philippines-working-on-asias-larg
est-solar-diesel-battery-micro-grid
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John Diecker
APT Consulting Group Co., Ltd.
www.aptthailand.com
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