Solar goes 'big-time' in the Philippines
IN an event of appropriate fanfare in Gapan City, Nueva Ecija, on Thursday, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. led the ceremonial groundbreaking for the MTerra Solar Project, which MTerra, the Department of Energy and the President himself hailed as the 'world's largest' solar project. The facility, which will cover 3,500 hectares stretching across five municipalities in Nueva Ecija and Bulacan, will add 3.5 gigawatts of solar generation capacity and 4.
will lead the actual development of the facility, beginning with 2.5 GW of solar photovoltaic panels as phase one of the project.There is some question of whether the MTerra project is actually the 'world's biggest' integrated solar and battery energy storage system project, as was widely reported on Friday.
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