PRESIDENTIAL Adviser on Poverty Alleviation Larry Gadon led the commissioning of the solar power system of the Cavite State University (CavSu) for its main campus and its 13 other campuses located all over the province.
Maria Agnes Nuestro, CavSU president, on Tuesday expressed gratitude to Gadon for his effort to energize the state university through the solar power system.
Gadon told The Manila Times that the solar power system would result in millions of pesos in savings, which can be used for CavSU’s other primary education purposes.
”The university is also expected to earn from the excess electricity uploaded to the grid, which will boost power supply for households and industries,” he said.
The university will also earn from the monetized carbon credits, said Gadon, who added that the project he initiated was at "no cost" to the government as it was carried out under a private partnership arrangement.
The project would also contribute to the Philippines’ compliance with the Paris Agreement of the United Nations, targeting a 35 percent mix of alternative energy use by the year 2030.
It is also part of compliance with the Kyoto Protocol, reducing carbon emissions by 2030, Gadon added.
He also said that when the administration of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. took over in 2022, the mix-use ratio was only at 6 percent.
“With a wider and more intensive alternative energy program of the Marcos administration, the compliance now stands at 22 percent and is moving forward,” Gadon added.
