RENEWABLE ENERGY. Greenergy Solar installs 180-kilowatt solar panels to one of the pillars of the Northern Mindanao health system, the Madonna and Child Hospital in Barangay Carmen, Cagayan de Oro City. It has been promoting the use of renewable energy in Mindanao for 13 years. (Photo courtesy of Greenergy Solar)
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – A local company has been helping promote the use of renewable energy in Mindanao for more than a decade producing 2.508 megawatts (MW) of installed solar panels to power homes, offices, streetlights, and farms.
“The sun is the limit,” said Engr. Cerael Donggay, Greenergy Solar’s president and chief executive officer, on the huge, still-untapped market for solar energy not just in Mindanao but in the entire country.
“Greenergy Solar, whose slogan is ‘Hire the Sun,’ has certainly come a long way,” Donggay said in a statement.
Greenergy Development Corporation, the parent company of Greenergy Solar, turns 13 years old and has been harnessing the power of the sun as a source of energy.
Four years after its first commercial solar installation, the company’s installed capacity is now close to triple the installed capacity of the 1 MW on-grid photovoltaic solar power plant of the Cagayan Power and Electric Company (Cepalco) in Barangay Indahag here, in 2004.
The facility was then the largest on-grid solar power farm in the whole of Southeast Asia.
The venture had its ups and downs when it began its operations as many thought that Greenergy Solar was in for an uphill journey when it branded itself as the company that would be “building the clean energy future of Mindanao and the Philippines”.
To date, the company has 24 engineers who serve customers from installation and the maintenance of the solar power systems; and 21 full-time salespeople who also serve as educators of solar energy as the renewable energy of choice.
After four years of providing solar solutions to homes, farms, and other clients who want clean, efficient, and affordable power sources, Greenergy Solar has installed 10,000 solar panels in 108 houses.
It has installed 5,737 units of solar street lights illuminating 287 kilometers of streets with clean power.
Greenergy Solar has also watered farms, supplying a total of 234 horsepower of installed solar water pumps, irrigating a total of 480 hectares of land.
As a supplier of efficient power sources, Greenergy Solar claims to have accumulated PHP1.3 billion of savings in terms of power expenditure.
As its contribution to climate action, Greenergy Solar estimates 249,000 metric tons of avoided carbon emissions.
Greenergy Solar now positions itself as the first commercial rooftop service provider in Mindanao.
Today, it is the largest and most trusted solar brand in the region. Its activities commenced in 2010, initially in partnership with SharpSolar of Japan.
In 2017, the company thought of completing the solar power supply loop by installing stand-alone and hybrid rooftop solar power systems.
The hybrid solar power solution allows adopters to sell power to Cepalco through a system called net metering.
The parent company of Greenergy Solar is Greenergy Development Corporation, a long-time proponent of renewable energy in the country fully owned and managed by Mindanaoans with backgrounds in power generation, transmission, distribution, climate change, and renewable energy.
Greenergy is actively building the clean energy future of Mindanao and the Philippines. (PNA)
