{"id":33287,"date":"2014-12-01T03:21:31","date_gmt":"2014-11-30T19:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=33287"},"modified":"2014-12-01T03:21:31","modified_gmt":"2014-11-30T19:21:31","slug":"qc-mulls-use-of-solar-panels-on-public-buildings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/12\/01\/qc-mulls-use-of-solar-panels-on-public-buildings\/","title":{"rendered":"QC mulls use of solar panels on public buildings"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_33357\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33357\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shutterstock_148095986.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-33357\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shutterstock_148095986.jpg\" alt=\"shutterstock\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shutterstock_148095986.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shutterstock_148095986-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shutterstock_148095986-900x600.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-33357\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">shutterstock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; The Quezon City government is set to convert public school and government office buildings into solar panel\u2013friendly infrastructures to save in allocations for electric bills.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Herbert Bautista has directed QC Division of City Schools and Task Force Streetlights to study the installation of solar panels on the roofing of public schools and government office buildings.<\/p>\n<p>Bautista said that aside from lowering the cost of electricity supplied by the Manila Electric Company (MERALCO), the plan will generate revenue by selling, through metering, excess power generated by the solar panels.<\/p>\n<p>He said that Meralco could buy some of the solar power at Php5.00 per kilowatt or more.<\/p>\n<p>The city government, the mayor said, will shoulder the big investment for the installation of solar panel on the city\u2019s public school and government buildings. However, the move has a long-term benefit because it could be a source of revenue to the city government, he added.<\/p>\n<p>The mayor said that Energy Secretary Carlos Jericho Petilla, who has been consulted on the plan, is willing to give support in terms of technical know-how and other aspects on proper installation of solar panels.<\/p>\n<p>SM North Edsa, which has now a generating capacity of 1.5 megawatts from solar panels it installed on its multi-level car park rooftop, is saving at least 5 percent of the mall\u2019s average electric consumption per day, equivalent to Php2 million, the mayor said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cQC can do the same by converting into solar power system the city\u2019s public schools and government office buildings as soon as possible,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The move, Mayor Bautista said, is also the city\u2019s continuing support to environment protection. particularly with regard to climate change. The city, he added, adheres to the government call to action on environment problem, thus shifting to renewable energy (RE) is one way of doing so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; The Quezon City government is set to convert public school and government office buildings into solar panel\u2013friendly infrastructures &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":33357,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","category-technology","mauthors-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}