Geothermal leader Energy Development Corporation (EDC) continued to spread positive energy in Negros Oriental by helping Foundation University (FU) in Dumaguete City establish its comprehensive energy efficiency and conservation programs.
Even with the abundance of clean, renewable geothermal power in Negros Island, EDC believes that conserving energy should still be a way of life for Negrenses to take better care of the environment, a media release said Tuesday.
EDC conducted an energy audit seminar late last week at FU with First Philippine Holdings and the Department of Energy (DOE) to help the university foster awareness on sustainable energy use, to create a culture of conservation and a less consumptive lifestyle among its faculty and students.
The training was also extended to local government units and other organizations in Negros Oriental to promote efficient and cost-effective utilization of energy resources to minimize environmental impact.
The DOE’s Senior Science Research Specialists, Engr. Maximino G. Marquez and Engr. Marlon Romulo U. Domingo, led the workshop on Day 1, which was an orientation on the role of the academe and local government in energy conservation and an introduction to energy conservation and efficiency and energy audit. FU’s Dean Marlon Tanilon also shared with the participants their university’s current energy efficiency and conservation initiatives.
Day 2 of the workshop was for hands-on application of the energy audit. Participants from the local government of Dumaguete, Sibulan and Valencia, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Department of Science and Technology, Department of Trade and Industry, Silliman University, Saint Paul University Dumaguete and FU were divided into groups to do an energy analysis of target sites and develop programs to achieve their corresponding energy efficiency and conservation programs.
EDC is the world’s largest vertically integrated geothermal company and the only purely renewable energy firm in the country.
It supplies 70 percent of Negros Oriental’s power supply and it has been empowering communities and preserving the forests in areas where it operates for almost 40 years, the media release said. (PNA)
