Firm offers cost-effective solar power

Aileen Garcia-Yap 05/26/2015

BELGIUM-based company UpGrade Energy has partnered with PhilCarbon, a Philippine renewable energy company, to form UpGrade Energy Philippines (UGEP). UpGrade will offer cost-effective solar panels to industries and households, said chief country representative Edgar Hao. Hao said…

Six Veco customers avail of net-metering

05/13/2015

  Installing solar panels in houses or commercial centers is part of Visayan Electric Co.’s net metering scheme. (CDN File Photo) Six residential customers of the Visayan Electric Co., Inc. (Veco) have availed of the “sexy business”…

Solar plane takes off Monday for flight around the world

03/09/2015

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirate – A Swiss solar-powered plane has taken off from Abu Dhabi, marking the start of the first attempt to fly around the world without a drop of fuel. Solar Impulse founder André…

Veco’s net-metering encourages solar generation, power savings

Aileen Garcia-Yap 06/24/2014

The initiative of the Visayan Electric Company to encourage the private sector and home consumers in energy saving has been lauded by the Department of Energy, not just as pioneering but also helping plug the thin power…

There’s light in a plastic bottle

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 11/24/2013

For villages still without electric power, plastic bottles can be turned into household light bulbs. “Solar night lights,” a simple technology being promoted for calamity-hit communities, costs P550 to P600 to make, said Joel Villanueva, director-general of…

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