Published April 29, 2021, 6:00 AM
The 63-megawatt greenfield Gigasol Palauig solar farm development of Ayala-led AC Energy Philippines Corporation has reached commercial operation phase and is now feeding capacity into Luzon grid.
The company injected P2.39 billion into that newly completed project; and its scale of electricity generation could go beyond 90 million kilowatt-hours (kWhs).
“Despite the challenges in construction amidst the pandemic, Gigasol Palauig has begun generating power for supply to the Luzon grid,” the project developer-firm said.
As emphasized by Jose Maria P. Zabaleta, chief development officer of AC Energy, “the Palauig solar farm is the first of AC Energy’s five new plants to begin operating in 2021,” and to his assessment, this will be “an exciting year for the company’s Philippine operations.”
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THE SOUTH China Sea is a major fish source for the Philippines that is crucial to its food security, political analysts said on Sunday, belying President Rodrigo R. Duterteâs claim that it couldnât quarrel with China over fish.
Chinaâs unregulated fishing activities in the disputed waterway, where the Southeast Asian nation gets 27% of its fish catch, threatens the livelihood of thousands of Filipino fishermen, said Sheena A. Valenzuela, a national security analyst at the Ateneo De Manila University Policy Center in Manila.
âItâs resources are crucial to the food security of Filipinos, contributing to coastal livelihoods and export trade,â she said in an e-mail. Chinaâs illegal fishing activities âcould also lead to the loss in livelihood of about 627,000 Filipino fishermen.â
Duterte urged to take back China s war narrative in asserting rights in West Philippine Sea, raise the matter to UN
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Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, April 20) There are a number of options available, and war is never one of them.
This is how former Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert Del Rosario, lawmakers and maritime experts see the recent pronouncements of President Rodrigo Duterte saying that only war or bloodshed can take back the West Philippine Sea from China. You know the cost of war and if we go there and really to find out and assert jurisdiction, it will be bloody, it will result violence that we cannot maybe win, Duterte said in his public briefing on Monday.