SEPALCO, a solar energy plant of SAS Sunrise Inc., is the first solar energy plant in Palo city of the middle Philippines. The ground-breaking ceremony was held on July 3 local time. Special guests included Remedios Petilla (mayer of Palo), Wilson Uy (City council speaker), Leonardo Sibbaluca (minister of environment and nature resource department), ministers of other relevant government offices, chief inspector of PNOC Exploration Corporation, city councilors, officials from the city government and so on, together bringing the high attention to this large scale independent solar energy plant.

In comparison with many countries in the world, Philippines still depends on petrochemical fuel to a great degree due to its innate advantage of sufficient sunshine all the year round as a tropical country. Superior conversion efficiency of light to electricity makes it an excellent choice to build a solar energy plant. The contract period for Palo plant is 20 years. Commercial operation will start next year in the beginning of 2016 after 6 months’ construction. This plant will be able to provide about 71 megawatts that can greatly relive the power shortage of this area in Philippines.

The set-up of SAS Sunrise’s first power plant will adopt the high efficiency mono-crystal CELCO cell self-made by SAS and high efficiency module made by its subsidiary in Germany, aleo. SAS sunrise team is composed of professionals with years of experience of solar energy plant establishment. With the resource integration of SAS group and sound financial support, it is expectable not merely to reduce the cost of solar energy generation and raise conversion efficiency but also to advance investments in the Middle Asia, Africa, and Latin America in the future, and further develop the Yield Co. operation mode to enhance SAS’competitiveness in this industry.