Cebu’s lone solar power plant

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Hope this catches on for other areas of the Philippines where there is available land.

In Toledo City, southwest of Cebu, a solar power plant stands on a 73-hectare property in Barangay Talavera.

The First Toledo Solar Energy Corp. (FTSEC) was constructed in October 2015 by Citicore Power Inc. (CPI) at a cost of P4 billion.

The facility, which began to dispatch power to the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) in June 2016, is located just 800 meters from NGCP’s Calung-Calung substation.

It remains the only operating solar power plant in Cebu although there had been efforts in the past by investors to set up similar power facilities in the province.
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