Solar Green installs rooftop panels at St Scho Marikina

Solar integrated systems provider Solar Green Heat Corp. has installed the biggest roof- mounted solar power plant in Marikina City.

It said it put up a solar photovoltaic systems at St. Scholastica’s Academy of Marikina (SSAM) that will help the education institution generate P19 million in electricity savings annually.

The solar power installation consists of 102- kilowatt peak ( kWp) system in SSAM’s two buildings, which can generate at least 250,000 kilowatt-hours.

The grid-connected installation located in Marikina Heights produces approximately 40 percent of SSAM’s electricity consumption.

“Our solar rooftops are part of the green measures that we have initiated in our campus through our conservation committee,” SSAM treasurer Sr. Celeste Licas said.

“This includes the use of LED in our lighting system and inverter air-conditioners to reduce carbon dioxide emission and subsequently save on our electricity bill,” she said.

Green Heat has registered SSAM’s solar PV system under the government’s net metering program, allowing the school to sell the surplus electricity it produces during weekends, holidays and breaks back to the grid.

SSAM’s solar rooftop installation follows that of its sister school, St. Scholastica’s College. Green Heat was also the systems provider at its Manila campus in 2014.

A 96-kWp of solar power facility was installed at the school’s St. Cecille Hall, generating 38.88 percent of the daily requirements of building and bringing savings of P400,000 per month.

Green Heat is a local solar power company that specializes in the design and construction of solar PV power systems.

Among its milestone projects are the solar rooftops of Asian Development Bank, Asia Brewery Inc., Manila Electric Co., Wilcon Depot, and other schools like Manuel L. Quezon University and St. Paul College of Parañaque.