9th NU12 Topic: Solar Panel for manufacturing plants
Any idea on what are the major sources of power being used by manufacturing plants? It's thru their generator set (GENSET) then coupled to/by Meralco (or other power distribution companies). Most of them use these two sources; one as their main source of power which is usually the GENSET (the cheaper amongst the two that uses bunker fuel oil), then being backed-up by Meralco (or other power distribution companies).
With the current worldwide situation, that Europe, USA, & other countries are on its economic downturn, Multinational companies seek outside the first world countries for cheaper production costs and sees Asia as their new haven. Competing countries in Asia (such as China, Thailand, Vietnam, Philippines, India, etc…) must satisfy these companies with best product quality in a lesser costs. With this opportunities, means more manufacturing plants will be installed that will equate to a high demand for power & fuel.
Currently our country doesn't have enough power plants to support the increasing demand for power. Thus prices of power are continuously increasing. Also, we import fuels that make us not competitive enough when the worldwide market for fuel spikes due to increasing demands from other countries.
The Idea is to impose the Big Manufacturing plants (or other small plants that can afford) to install and use solar panels as their main source of power (then GENSET and/or Meralco will be used as their back-up source). As we all know that Philippines is a tropical country, thus using & installing Solar panels will be a good investment that will generate great returns for their company in terms of costs reduction. <solar panels are expensive; current laws by ERC does not favor this; ERC is controlled by the utilities> 3.5
Senica, Carlo Phillip
SPENTREP - S09
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