THE Buskowitz group said on Tuesday that Coca-Cola Beverages Philippines, Inc. has partnered with the solar rooftop system provider to install solar panels on two of the bottling company’s facilities with a total capacity of 3.9 megawatts (MW).
“The larger of the two installations, located in Misamis Oriental, will be made up of approximately 7,000 solar panels with a capacity of 2.8 megawatts. The second facility, located in Bacolod, will be made up of nearly 3,000 panels totaling 1.1 megawatts. The project has set a December 2019 completion date,” Buskowitz Energy said in a statement.
The installation of solar panels in the two sites marks the nine sites of the bottling company using green and clean energy by year-end, Buskowitz said. To date, Coca-Cola sources over 60% of its total energy requirements from renewable energy.
“Seven out of its 19 manufacturing sites use renewable energy — particularly, geothermal energy — in the following areas: Laguna (Sta. Rosa and Canlubang), Ilocos, Pangasinan (Calasiao), Cebu, Pampanga (San Fernando), and Bulacan (Meycauayan). Moreover, since 2010 in its Calasiao, Pangasinan Plant, Coca-Cola has been using a biomass boiler which utilizes rice hulls instead of petroleum for fuel, in order to address a significant portion of its power requirements,” it said. — Victor V. Saulon
