The wind farms, which are located in Ilocos Norte and Panay, buffer the country’s expected power shortage in the coming month of March.
Two new wind farms in the Philippines have added 303 megawatts of clean energy to the country’s power supply.
The wind farms, which are located in Ilocos Norte and Panay, buffer the country’s expected power shortage in the coming month of March.
The World Wide Fund for Nature welcomed the new wind farms that were developed. WWF also expressed their belief that the Philippines’ Department of Energy has a prime opportunity to generate Intended Nationally Determined Contributions – which are country-wide climate change mitigation and adaptation commitments – by increasing the share of renewable energy in the country, reported the country’s local newspaper.
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“We are hopeful the Department of Energy shall immediately increase the wind FiT allocation,” said WWF-Philippines Climate and Energy Unit Head Atty. Gia Ibay. In fact, based on date from the Wind Energy Development Association of the Philippines, the month with the highest wind energy output occurs during March of each year. Incidentally, this is the same month when our projected 2015 power shortage is slated to worsen. By Seizing the Wind, we can augment our power supply this 2015.”
WWF’s Seize the Wind campaign aims to increase the Feed-in Tariff, or FiT allocation for wind energy from 200 MW to 500 MW.
Around 70 percent of Philippines’ electricity is generated from fossil fuels, 90 percent of which comes from coal and oil resources imported at varying prices from other nations.
Wind farms take around a year to go online, compared with conventional fossil-fuel power plants which take up four years to construct.
The Philippines’ clean and renewable sources of energy are geothermal, hydro, wind, and solar – sources which are seen as an advantage since the country does not have any significant deposits of fossil-fuel. – EcoSeed Staff
