Palawan Governor, Joel Reyes, said that P110 million from the Malampaya Natural Gas Royalties that the Philippines are receiving will be used to fund their Solar Home System Project
This will give electricity and power to over 960 households. These households reside in 24 barangays (town) within the municipalities of Coron, Culion, Dumaran, Linapacan and Quezon. Aside from powering homes it will also power streets via the inclusion of five solar-powered streetlights for each town.
Under this project, every household two units of a beneficiary is provided with a 25-watt peak photovoltaic module (solar panel), two units of pieces seven-watt compact fluorescent lamp, one unit 40 ampere-hour unit, 12 volt Battery, a set of charge controller with radio and one lot in-house wiring…
Each SHS installation costs P15,522, but beneficiaries will only pay 30 percent of the total cost amounting to P130 monthly for three years and the provincial government will shoulder 70 percent of the cost.
In addition, the beneficiaries will pay a monthly association fee of P20 in support of the Barangay Power Association (BaPa), which will take charge of the operation and maintenance of the systems. …For the upkeep and replacement of the battery used for the storage of solar power, the beneficiary will also shell out P50 a month. The fee will be used for the replacement of battery in case of breakdown. The association will collect a total of P200 per month from the beneficiaries for the next three years.[source]
The SHS project in Palawan started in January 2007 and since then they have been able to install 480 systems in households in 112 towns. These towns lie in the municipalities of Aborlan, El Nido, Roxas, Quezon and Taytay. This breaks down to about forty families in a town having access to Solar Powered renewable energy.
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