Along with CDOBloggers, I will be joining the 5th Mindanao Bloggers Summit in Iligan City because I believe in their advocacy that is to promote sustainable lifestyle. Mindanao Bloggers Summit will poster the theme “One Green Mindanao: Mobilizing Bloggers to Promote Sustainable Lifestyle” which they will be discussing the issues on environment and to help formulate a better Mindanao through the promotion and the adaptation of a sustainable lifestyle. The theme is also in line of what CDOBloggers have been supporting, the Solar Energy for Mindanao.

Mindanao is in crisis for power energy. Power shortages is predicted to be due next year due to the increase demand of power. Though we have hydro power plants in Mindanao, we are in dire need of an “alternator”. This has been proven by one of Mindanao’s distribution utility, CEPALCO. CEPALCO has both hydro and solar on which they alternate both sources. When there’s greater volume of water due to constant rain, they will be using the energy coming from hydro and if there’s a lot of light, they will be using the energy from solar. The issues on Solar Energy is that it’s costly. But actually it is not! A fellow blogger, ladysoda, explains the concept of FIT-ALL:

FiT-All (Feed in Tariff Allowance) – The FIT-All is considered most relevant among the calculations because this manifests the pass-on effect on the consumers’ electricity bills. ALL electricity end users are required to pay a uniform Peso/kWh charge as a feed-in tariff allowance (FIT-All), which will be placed in a fund from which the payments to renewable energy developers will be paid. This FIT-All, which will be determined annually, will appear as a separate line item on customers’ bills.

It simply means, even if the people of Mindanao chose to do NOTHING, Mindanao consumers will still end up paying for those Renewable Energies already established as it is a SHARED cost. So why are we all just sit around opposing the generation of a Solar Energy in Mindanao while other consumers from Luzon and Visayas are enjoying their own Renewable Energy with us here in Mindanao paying at the same time?

Come to think of it, the cost of Mindanao electricity usage through Solar Energydivided by the whole Electricity consuming population of the entire Philippines? Do you still think it’s expensive? We are just talking about the cost issue here. How about its effect to our failing environment? That’s a HUGE bonus! So why say no to Solar Energy in Mindanao? I am a definite YES!

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