The Philippines Should Learn from This Project

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The Philippines should have project like this one or close to it, to answer the shortage of power in a cleaner way. A report from ens-newswire.com says that;

"The Asian Development Bank has approved a US$100 million loan to the state of Gujarat in western India to accelerate the rollout of one the world's largest solar power facilities.
 The funding for the Gujarat Solar Power Transmission Project will support the 500 megawatt Patan Solar Park, Asia's largest such project, located at Charanka village about 60 km (40 miles) from India's border with Pakistan...
 ... "By putting in reliable power transmission facilities in the solar park, Asian Development Bank will help draw in private sector developers, while providing a model which can be replicated to scale up solar power in a significant manner in India," said Naoki Sakai, senior climate change specialist with the bank.
 Japanese multi-national corporations Sharp, Panasonic, Mitsui and the Toshiba Mitsubishi-Electric Industrial Systems Corp., the Swiss corporation Oerlikon and Germany's Schott Solar have "evinced interest" in setting up units in the park, according to the Office of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi...
 ... The U.S.-based Clinton Foundation, headed by former President Bill Clinton, is partnering with the Gujarat government on the solar park. The Clinton Climate Initiative helped to select the site."

The Philippines is a country with vast resources specially the ever free sunlight and other renewable energy sources but always experience a power shortage. We need to change it. Lets start now.