enabling sustainability - Aboitiz Power

Renewable Energy
is the fourth pillar. Cleanergy is AboitizPower’s brand of renewable energy. Energy is harnessed from
hydro and geothermal sources and will help consumers achieve a sustainable lifestyle and help them
reduce their carbon footprint. Cleanergy communicates AboitizPower’s vision to offer an energy solution
that leaves a lighter impact on Earth’s climate and its limited resources, and to promote the usage of
clean & renewable energy from sources that are sustainable & cleaner than fossil fuels. AboitizPower
believes that it is every Filipino’s right to live a sustainable life.
SEEING the urgency to address the climate
change problem, the Aboitiz Group—
through AboitizPower—decided to beef
up its investments in the generation of
energy from renewable sources. These
investments tap the country’s geothermal
and hydropower resources.
In 2009, AboitizPower launched the Cleanergy brand, which
is power from geothermal and hydropower plants, to provide
consumers the chance to choose to follow their conscience and
do their part in slowing down climate change.
Having purchased government-owned geothermal and hydro
power generation assets, AboitizPower has become one of the
largest private renewable energy producers in the country.
Its renewable energy portfolio includes two geothermal power
plants—Tiwi in Albay and the Mak Ban Power Complex in Laguna-
Batangas border—and numerous hydro generation assets: such as
the Bakun plant in Ilocos Sur, Magat in Isabela and the Ambuklao
plants in Benguet.
For Magat and Ambuklao, AboitizPower joined forces with SN
Power of Norway.
The company poured more investments into renewable energy
and began operation of the Sibulan Power Plant, a Greenfield
Project that utilizes the Sibulan River to generate hydroelectricity.
One plant, already operating, generates 26 MW, while a second
one has the capacity to produce 16.5 MW.
In 2010, AboitizPower sold 4,356,180 MWh of renewable power.
As a consequence the release of an estimated 2.2 million tons of
CO2 was avoided.
Renewable Energy
Generating Portfolio
Plant Capacity (MW)
Hydro 715
1,182
TOTAL
Attributable Capacity (MW)
Hydro 383
Geothermal 467 Geothermal 467
850
TOTAL
“We launched Cleanergy in 2001 and its mission then still holds
true now, to make Cleanergy available to every Filipino,” said
AboitizPower President and CEO Erramon I. Aboitiz. “Cleanergy,
the brand of clean and renewable energy, communicates the
company’s vision to offer an energy solution that leaves a
lighter impact on the earth’s climate and its limited resources.”
The company believes that if consumers are given a choice, they
would choose Cleanergy and help protect the planet.
When open access under the Electric Power Industry Reform Act
(EPIRA) is enabled, AboitizPower will offer Cleanergy as an option
for customers who believe in the same vision that the company
has for the future.
AboitizPower’s investments in renewable energy are in line with
the Aboitiz Group’s triple bottom line approach, which gives
importance to protecting the planet and caring for communities
to sustain its profits.
To emphasize the importance of renewable energy in its operations,
Aboitiz identified it as one of the pillars of sustainability, along with
reduce, re-use/recycle, rejuvenating nature and recharge communities.
Hydroelectric
Geothermal
2008
2009
Renewable Energy
sold in 2010 (MWh)
MWh sold
872,769
3,483,411
TOTAL
Avoided Emission
(tons of CO2) through the renewable energy sold in AP
MWh sold
942,960
3,000,467
Avoided C02 emissions
from renewable energy
sold (in tons CO2)
434,639
1,734,739
4,356,180 2,169,378
TCO2
528,058
1,494,232
2010
4,356,180
2,169,378
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