First power from Alabat: the Philippines' newest wind farm starts turning

On Alabat Island in Quezon Province, the wind has started paying rent. Alternergy's 64-megawatt Alabat Wind Farm has begun generating electricity, with three of its turbines already spinning and earning while final testing continues — among the first projects from the Philippines' second Green Energy Auction to reach this milestone. The farm's transmission system is connected to the national grid. Once fully commissioned, Alabat is expected to produce about 202 gigawatt-hours of clean electricity a year — enough for roughly 218,500 households — and to avoid an estimated 150,541 tonnes of carbon emissions annually. Its 8-megawatt turbines are among the largest installed in Southeast Asia.

SDG 7 · Affordable and clean energy — Mechanism: infrastructure build