Philippines building world's largest solar & battery project

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PalawOneSerial expat12 December 2024 07:40:59

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Philippines Building World’s Largest Solar + Battery Project

By Zachary Shahan 9 hours ago

https://cleantechnica.com/2024/12/11/philippines-building-worlds-largest-solar-battery-project/

The Philippines is working on the largest solar power plus battery storage project in the world, and breaking ground on the project a few weeks ago.

Philippines President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. featured for the groundbreaking of the Meralco Terra Solar Project. The project is going to have a solar power capacity of 3,500 megawatts (MW) and a battery storage system with 4,500 megawatt-hour (MWh) of energy storage capacity.

The project is to produce electricity for more than 2 million households in the Philippines once it’s fully operational in about 3 years (in 2027). It is expected to create more than 10,000 jobs as well. “Over the next decade, it is poised to generate nearly P23 billion in financial benefits, resources that will pave the way for even greater progress,” President Marcos said.

“This project will energize over 2 million households and reduce carbon emissions by more than 4.3 million metric tons annually,” President Marcos stated. “To put that into perspective, it is equivalent of removing 3 million gasoline-powered cars from our roads — decisive action towards helping address global warming and climate change.”

Importantly, the project also provides a predictable, stable, resilient supply of electricity at a time when the country has growing electricity demand.

“We are working towards a steady and reliable power supply that will meet the demands of today and continuously fuel our ambitions for tomorrow. Projects like Terra Solar bring us closer to that vision,” he added.

The Meralco Terra Solar Project is going to require PhP200 billion ($3.42 billion) of investment in total.

For those familiar with the country, here are more details of the project: “The project spans 3,500 hectares across Nueva Ecija and Bulacan. Initially, it will be connected to the existing 500-kiloVolt (kV) Nagsaag-San Jose Transmission Lines ,and later linked to the upcoming 500-kV Nagsaag-Marilao Transmission Lines.”

President Marcos ended his presentation at the groundbreaking with an appeal to the private sector and government agencies to build more such projects elsewhere in the Philippines. Companies involved in this project include Meralco, Terra Solar Philippines, Solar Philippines New Energy Corporation, MGen Renewable Energy Inc, and others.

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Fred Indonesia Expert

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FredIndonesia Expert12 December 2024 08:07:22

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Excellent!

Green energy in collaboration with the world's leading innovator in renewables.

This is good news for a lot of people.

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Lotus EaterViP12 December 2024 10:19:13

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@Fred

Yes ‘GREEN’ Fred.

Great news about the cancellation (not official yet) of the proposed new Indonesian capital Nusantara in Kalimantan (Borneo) which you were a keen supporter of. The island is one of the world’s last relatively unspoilt tropical habitats.

The new capital would inevitably have exasperated the destruction of this beautiful lush diverse in animal species GREEN island.

I bet you often wear two different socks on your feet..

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FredIndonesia Expert12 December 2024 10:29:54

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@Fred
Yes ‘GREEN’ Fred.
Great news about the cancellation (not official yet) of the proposed new Indonesian capital Nusantara in Kalimantan (Borneo) which you were a keen supporter of. - @Lotus Eater

Was I?

Thank you for reminding me of something I have never said. 🙂

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Enzyte BobViP12 December 2024 21:45:12

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The Bataan nuclear power plant was complete and never fueled under Papa Marcos. Cronies made a fortune, is history repeating itself with this new venture under Marcos Junior.

As a side note: China has 1161 coal fired plants, the US has 204.

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FredIndonesia Expert12 December 2024 22:08:42

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China is a natural choice for renewable energy partnerships. They make the best quality and most efficient units, and they produce roughly 85% of then world's supply of solar generating equipment. About the same goes for small scale water and wind power. Those technologies aren't as close to the public eye, but they are bring electricity to remove villages that have no hope of connecting to grids.

Frankly, any country that wants to build serious solar has to work with China.

China saw an opportunity many years ago, built everything they needed to become the best at everything, and now they are. It's stunningly great capitalism on a worldwide scale.

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pnwcyclistPhilippines Expert13 December 2024 00:55:55

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Kudos to Bong-bong. Looks like a good project, hopefully no graft. I was rather surprised to see they are using photovoltaic (solar panels) vs concentrated solar (mirrors that focus light on a steam generator) which is generally considered more efficient for large industrial installations. Anyway that's going to take a heck of a lot of solar panels for 3.5 GW. And a big battery storage system from Huawei.

Wish they would do that in Arizona, embarrassingly we get only 10% of our power from solar, with all that desert being scorched by the suns rays most days of the year. Kinda sad really. We tried to get more progressive thinkers elected to the Arizona Corporation Commission this year (the people who control these decisions) but little attention was paid to such an obscure topic by voters so the status quo remained in place, which prefers fossil fuels.