Ms. Ileana Miritescu, Program Manager-Energy of the European Union Delegation to the Philippines, together with Atty. Monalisa Dimalanta, Chairman of the National Renewable Energy Board (NREB), the Mindanao Development Authority’s Mindanao Power Development Program, the European Union- Supported Access to Sustainable Energy Programme (EU-ASEP), the Department of Energy and the Davao del Sur Electric Cooperative (DASURECO) visited today the ASEP Productive Use of Renewable Energy (PURE) installation in Sitio New Mabuhay, Little Baguio, Malita Davao Occidental.
The pilot installation is a small solar-powered abaca spindler that replaces the time-consuming and tedious manual process results in a higher quality product and increases the income of more than 100 farmer members of the Sitio Mabuhay Abaca, Cacao, Coffee, Corn, and Vegetables Integrated Small Farmers Association (SMACCC-VISFA) who are part of the Bla’an Tribe.
Aside from the PURE Project, EU-ASEP is also supporting the “Renewable Energy to Increase the Value-Added of Seaweeds in Tawi-Tawi (RETS Project), a partnership between MinDA, UNIDO, MSU Tawi-Tawi, Provincial Government of Tawi-Tawi, and the BARMM Government. The project will install a solar PV-Diesel Hybrid Energy Generation Technology with a total estimated installed capacity of 1.6 MW in the Island Municipalities of Sitangkai and Sibutu, Tawi-Tawi providing electrification to more than 3000 new household connections.
The PURE and the RETS Projects are examples of how renewable energy can bridge the gap between the agriculture and energy nexus, generating livelihood opportunities in remote, marginalized areas in Mindanao.
Photo credits to EU-ASEP.
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