Cagayan de Oro 1st Public Market In Mindanao to Use Solar Power

Did you know that Cagayan de Oro Mindanao holds the record of the largest solar power plant in the developing nations around the world and they called it 1 Megawatt Photovoltaic Power Plant built by Cagayan de Oro Electric Power Light Company Inc or (CEPALCO) and it is located at Barangay Indahag. This 1 MW of Solar Power can supply up to 900 residential in the near Barangay.

CEPALCO is campaigning to use solar power as the alternative to a power source in the City but after few years the City Mayor of Cagayan de Oro gave signal to use a solar power in one of the public markets on Cagayan de Oro that public market is the Cogon Market.

Plans are underway to activate the 1-megawatt solar power project to be installed on the roof of a public market in Cagayan de Oro City.

The entire solar project will be spearheaded by the City Economic Enterprises Department (CEED), which will cover a roof area of 1.2 hectares and potentially generate around 1 megawatt of solar powered electricity installed at the Cogon Public Market here in Cagayan de Oro City. And when this finally becomes operational, it will be the first such project on top of a public market in the Philippines,” said Ian Mark Nacaya, city council member and chair of the CEED.

Marilyn A. Chavez, assistant vice president of Cagayan Electric Power and Light Company, Inc. (Cepalco) expressed her optimism on the proposed project: “This is a welcome news. It will help ease our energy need. Cagayan de Oro City had its first solar power plant back in 2004, with 6,500 solar panels on 2 hectares of land in Barangay Indahag, Cagayan de Oro City. We got it with a grant from Japan and it gives us 1 megawatt of electricity,” said Chavez.

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