TAWI-TAWI – The island town of Sibutu here will be the first fishing community with a floating solar farm to power an ice plant and a cold storage equipment, and also serve as a raft or payao to attract and catch fish.
The floating solar farm is being introduced in the Philippines by the Norwegian company SN Power in partnership with Aboitiz Power. The partner companies have established the first prototype in Magat Dam in Isabela province in northern Luzon which is capable of generating 200MW.
The Department of Agriculture and the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources will jointly fund the project which is worth about P20 million. The new technology is expected to improve and enhance the productivity of the fisheries sector.
Agriculture Secretary Manny Piñol said that while fishermen in remote and isolated islands could catch a huge volume of fish, the absence of ice and cold storage discourages them from catching more than what their family could consume.
The floating solar farm can also generate power which could be stored in batteries to provide light to the fishing communities; serve as a huge payao where small fish species would gather and attract big fish species like tuna; and function as a fish cage in coves or near the coastlines for the production of high value fish. (Lilybeth Ison)
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