Thursday, December 11, 2014

From #Rappler - Why we need to go #Solar now

#solarpanels at every rooftop

SM North Went Solar - How about you?

Making the Green Switch (From L-R): Sonny Belmonte, Jericho Petilla, President Benigno S. Aquino III, Leandro Leviste, and Hans Sy
The green switch at SM


The post featured the ground breaking move by SM to go solar.  They installed a 1.7 mW at the rooftop of SM north which is the largest so far for rooftop installation in the Philippines.  This would have entailed a huge cap ex.  That would be about $4,000 x kW and would have cost $6,800,000 x 45 or P306,000,000 a rather hefty investment.

The installation is enough to power 1,000 homes and consist of 5,760 panels installed atop the multilevel parking of SM North.

This is SM contribution to help avert power shortage in 2015, save electricity bills, , and contribute to green environment

SM Dasmarinas and MoA will be next. (If you are SM and you have huge power bills, you will employ the same strategy)  SM Marikina and Masinag will be redesigned too using Solar Energy

The supplier is Solar Phil, headed by Leandro Leviste, a 21 Yale student, son of Loren Legarda.

Leandro Leviste, 21-year old Yale student, is also founder and president of Solar Philippines. All photos by Ruy Martinez

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