Philippines now has utility scale rooftop solar facility

First Philec Solar Corp. has put up the Philippines’ first rooftop-installed solar facility of “utility scale.” Located within the First Philippine Industrial Park in Tanauan,Batangas, the First Philec solar facility could generate 180 kW in
additional grid capacity.

According to the Philippine Solar Power Association, this is the first solar facility installed in a
rooftop that could generate at least 100 kW or utility scale.

Similar facilities have earlier been installed on rooftops, but these were mainly used for rural electrification in Mindanao, of less than 1 kW.