EPI units bag safety awards
Renewable energy subsidiaries of Emerging Power Inc. (EPI) have bagged recognition for their overall safety performance.
In a statement, EPI said its subsidiaries Biliran Geothermal Inc. (BGI) and Jobin–SQM Inc. (JSI) won the 2016 Corporate Safety and Health Excellence by the Safety and Health Association of the Philippines Energy Sector Inc. (SHAPES) and the Department of Energy (DOE).
The recognition was awarded to the two companies for operating one year without lost time accident from Nov. 1, 2015 to Oct. 31, 2016.
According to the SHAPES and the DOE, the award is also given to companies who have had a broad and adequate measure of overall health and safety performance for at least one year, and have had no outstanding safety violation with the DOE or the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE).
Meanwhile, Safety and Health Officers Michael Felipe of BGI and JSI’s Arman Dominic Zipangan were also given the 2016 Outstanding Safety Professional Award for their valuable contribution to the sites’ strict adherence to safety requirements.
“We have always emphasized safety in all the EPI sites in Mindoro, Subic and Biliran. That is why this award is very important because it recognizes EPI’s utmost commitment to the well-being of everyone onsite,” EPI president and CEO Guido Alfredo Delgado said.
From the ground-breaking of the Mindoro Geothermal Power Corp. in 2013, EPI said there has been no lost time accident recorded in any of its active RE development sites in the country.
Meanwhile, EPI bought 90 percent of JSI in 2015 to expand its green energy operations from geothermal to solar and wind power in the Subic Special Economic Zone.
EPI is majority owned by Nickel Asia Corp., one of the country’s biggest mining firms. NAC has guaranteed the loan facility of EPI to develop renewable sources energy in Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao.
The power firm is building a 100-megawatt solar farm in Subic, Zambales, which is among one of the biggest solar farms in Southeast Asia. It also has geothermal developments in Mindoro and Biliran province.
DOE and SHAPES have been giving recognition to individuals and organizations in the energy sector with exemplary safety practices and management through the annual Safety Awards since 2008.