MGEN builds more than power plants
With strong profitability fueled by its booming operations, Meralco PowerGen Corp. (MGEN) is ensuring that communities are not left powerless.
Deploying power plants, whether traditional or renewables, here and there will keep someone tied up. But MGEN shows that powering homes and enterprises, and extending corporate social responsibility programs, do not have to run on separate grids.
According to MGEN, it is converting its record 27,289 gigawatt hours of energy delivered last year into something that could generate impact.
First, the Visayas now has Meralco Power Academy (MPA) facility, allowing professionals there to get access to the power giant’s technical expertise, learning programs and best practices.
Through MGEN Center for Innovation (MCI), the firm hopes to bring innovation directly into its operating communities.
“Now, MCI will serve a wider audience and aim to become a leading hub for energy education, research and innovation. This is the first of many centers for innovation we plan to establish across our sites in the Philippines,” MGEN president and CEO Emmanuel Rubio says in a statement.
The company likewise completed the P17.3 million La Paz Football Ground project, allowing young athletes in Iloilo to train even at night.
Aside from giving light, MGEN also led forest restoration and coastline protection efforts in Iloilo, with over 800,000 trees now standing across 256 hectares in the province
Back here in Luzon, where the group is building the world’s largest solar farm yet, MGEN has teamed up with local government units and MPA to provide livelihood programs for communities surrounding the P200-billion MTerra Solar project.
Once the residents complete the program, they can obtain a national certificate from the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority.
MGEN boasts that about 60 percent of its 600 scholars got absorbed by MTerra Solar’s contractors.
“These programs make the case that a company supporting the country’s sustainable energy future carries both a responsibility and a capacity to shape the communities that host its operations, not just the grid,” MGEN said.
