The Philippines moves closer to building the world’s largest solar project

• 21 June 2022
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The solar Philippines has submitted offers to contract most of its planned 10 gigawatts of projects, including the world’s largest, as the Southeast Asian nation seeks to meet the rising demand for electricity while shifting away from coal.

The planned facilities “would help address the country’s potential power shortage” and significantly boost the nation’s grid-connected solar capacity of 1,127 megawatts at end-2021, Solar Philippines President Leandro Leviste said in the statement, Bangkok Post reported on June 20.

The solar Philippines is building 3.5 gigawatts of solar and 4.5 gigawatt-hours of battery storage with billionaire Enrique Razon, which it said will be the world’s largest solar project and would be twice the country’s existing solar capacity.

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