NPC, EU, World Bank bring clean energy to Mindanao, Visayas

ON August 31, the National Power Corp. (Napocor), the European Union and the World Bank held the turnover ceremony of the four completed rural network solar power plants for four electric cooperatives (ECs) in Samar, South Cotabato and Sultan Kudarat.

The project is part of the EU's 66 million euros, or P3.8 billion, grant to the Philippines through the Access to Sustainable Energy Program, a joint undertaking of the EU and the Department of Energy, administered by the World Bank.