President Aquino and Hans Sy of SM Prime launched the largest solar rooftop project in the Philippines atop the SM City North EDSA mall. The 1.5 megawatt project installed 5,750 solar panels and is expected to offset 5% of the mall's electricity needs and generate $2 million in monthly savings. It is the first commercial rooftop solar installation connected to the Luzon power grid, contributing additional renewable energy capacity. SM plans larger similar projects at malls in Dasmarinas and Mall of Asia to support the nation's energy needs.
President Aquino and Hans Sy of SM Prime launched the largest solar rooftop project in the Philippines atop the SM City North EDSA mall. The 1.5 megawatt project installed 5,750 solar panels and is expected to offset 5% of the mall's electricity needs and generate $2 million in monthly savings. It is the first commercial rooftop solar installation connected to the Luzon power grid, contributing additional renewable energy capacity. SM plans larger similar projects at malls in Dasmarinas and Mall of Asia to support the nation's energy needs.
President Aquino and Hans Sy of SM Prime launched the largest solar rooftop project in the Philippines atop the SM City North EDSA mall. The 1.5 megawatt project installed 5,750 solar panels and is expected to offset 5% of the mall's electricity needs and generate $2 million in monthly savings. It is the first commercial rooftop solar installation connected to the Luzon power grid, contributing additional renewable energy capacity. SM plans larger similar projects at malls in Dasmarinas and Mall of Asia to support the nation's energy needs.
President Aquino and Hans Sy of SM Prime launched the largest solar rooftop project in the Philippines atop the SM City North EDSA mall. The 1.5 megawatt project installed 5,750 solar panels and is expected to offset 5% of the mall's electricity needs and generate $2 million in monthly savings. It is the first commercial rooftop solar installation connected to the Luzon power grid, contributing additional renewable energy capacity. SM plans larger similar projects at malls in Dasmarinas and Mall of Asia to support the nation's energy needs.
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Biggest Solar Project in SM North EDSA.
Manila, Philippines President Benigno S. Aquino III and SM Prime president Hans Sy led the launch of SM City North EDSAs solar rooftop project, so far the biggest project in the country, on Monday. This is significant in the light of the challenges that will confront our energy sector, Aquino said. The solar rooftop project is led by 21-year old Leandro Leviste from Solar Philippines. The SM Group first launched the solar project in SM Xiamen in China, with 1.1 megawatts solar energy produced by 3,740 panels. According to SM Supermalls president Annie Garcia, the SM North EDSA solar project, powered by 5,750 solar panels installed at the rooftop of the multilevel parking building, is expected to generate 1.5 megawatts of power for the malls 16,000 lighting fixtures, 59 escalators and 20 elevators. This represents 5 percent of the malls total electricity requirements. Using the solar panels can generate up to 2 million in savings every month for SM North, Garcia said SM has two rooftop solar power projects by Solar Philippines in the pipeline in SM Dasmarinas in Cavite and SM Mall of Asia in Paranaque. The SM City Dasmarinas will have 3,740 solar panels that are expected to generate 0.8 megawatts of power, expected to be operational by May 2015. While SM City Mall of Asia will have 10,500 solar panels that will generate 2.7 megawatts of power, may go online by the end of 2015. The SM Group is one of the private companies that support the DOEs interruptible Load program, which aims to ease the demand for electricity and prevent the projected power crisis in the summer of 2015. SM North solar rooftop lists on energy spot market By: Riza T. Olchondra - @inquirerdotnet Philippine Daily Inquirer / 01:26 AM December 17, 2015
SOLAR Philippines partners with SM Malls to build the first of many
solar plants around the country as a solution to climate change and power crisis. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
The solar powered rooftop at the SM City North Edsa (SMNE) mall has been listed on the countrys energy spot market as one of the new sources of power for the Luzon grid.
The Department of Energy (DOE) confirmed that the solar power
plant at SM City North Edsa had been registered under the new generation capacities for Luzon grid, contributing an additional 1.5- megawatt (MW) capacity to the power supply within Luzon areas. DOE assistant secretary Mario Marasigan, who also heads the Renewable Energy Management Bureau, said the inclusion of the solar power plant in SM North Edsa in the electricity market means that the power it generates contributes to the stabilization of the power supply in Luzon areas. ADVERTISEMENT
The power plant, he said, is included under the Feed-in-Tariff (FIT)
System, a scheme that involves the obligations on the part of electric power industry participant to source electricity from Renewable Energy (R.E.) generation at a guaranteed fixed price applicable to a given period of time.
Unlike other solar rooftop projects which are dedicated for self-use of the building, Solar Philippines SMNE solar power plant is the only commercial rooftop solar project within the heart of the Metro Manila that is connected to the Luzon grid, thus, contributing additional capacity to the power supply within Luzon areas, according to DOE data.
The solar plant is owned and operated by Solar Philippines
Commercial Rooftop Projects Inc. (SPCRPI), led by its president Leandro Legarda Leviste.
The SM North Edsa solar powered rooftop, the largest solar powered rooftop in a commercial establishment in Southeast Asia, is composed of 5,760 solar panels. It produces enough power to energize 1,000 households or 150,000 10-watt light bulbs or charge 214,285 cellular phones.
The power generated from the solar panels could offset 1,200 tons of C02 or the equivalent of planting 6,000 trees per year.
SM Prime President Hans Sy earlier said in a statement, It is part of
SM Primes continuing commitment toward making its operations sustainable and environment friendly as the world prepares for the effects of climate change.
The said solar powered rooftop, which is located at the multi-level
carpark building, was inaugurated by President Aquino, Sy, and Leviste in November 2014.
SM Prime has put up the first SM mall to operate using solar energy in Xiamen in mainland China using 3,740 solar panels, generating 1.1- MW power. For this pioneering effort, SM City Xiamen was awarded the Mall China Golden Mall Awards 2014 Excellent Upgrade last April in Shanghai by the Mall China Information Center, the first nonprofit organization in Mainland China catering to the retail property sector and the countrys largest shopping center retail organization.
Similarly, SM City Jinjiang, also located in China, has 4,012 solar
panels which targets to generate 1.2 MW per year.
The need for greater sustainability and disaster-resiliency has been at
the forefront of SM Primes development. For the Mall of Asia complex, SM Prime devotes around 30 percent of its budget to make the whole area disaster-resilient. As a result, it had survived 50 typhoons, four earthquakes and two floods from monsoon storms since it was built in 2006.
Great strides were also achieved through sustainable designs of its
other malls, notably in SM Mall of Asia, SM Marikina, SM Masinag and SM Muntinlupa.
