AboitizPower lights up first solar plant north of Manila

This is its fourth energised solar facility.

Aboitiz Power Corporation (AboitizPower), through its renewable energy arm Aboitiz Renewables Inc. (ARI), has switched on its 45 megawatt peak (MWp) Armenia Solar Project in Tarlac, its first solar plant in Central Luzon.

In a statement, AboitizPower said the plant was energised in late November. It connects to the grid via an 11.58-kilometre transmission line that traverses five barangays.

The Armenia solar project is AboitizPower’s fourth energised solar facility, following the 59 MWp San Carlos Sun Power Inc. Power Plant in Negros Occidental, the 94 MWp Cayanga-Bugallon Solar Power facility in Pangasinan, and the 159 MWp Laoag Solar Power Plant in Pangasinan.

Meanwhile,  AP Renewables Inc., the geothermal subsidiary of ARI, has announced that the Bay battery energy storage system (BESS) project in Laguna has signed an engineering, procurement, and construction contract with Shandong Electric Power Engineering Consulting Institute Co. Ltd.

This will be the first-ever BESS and geothermal hybrid system in the Philippines once completed.

AboitizPower so far has over 1,000 megawatts (MW) of projects from various indigenous energy sources. It eyes 3,600 MW of renewable energy capacity by 2030.