September 1, 2025 | 12:00am
MANILA, Philippines — Built-in property developer SM Prime Holdings Inc. is powering up extra SM purchasing facilities nationwide with photo voltaic power, with plans to put in rooftop photo voltaic photovoltaic (PV) techniques in 20 malls subsequent yr.
“Presently, 48 of our 88 malls are already with photo voltaic panels. For subsequent yr, we ought to be together with one other 20 on the record. So little by little we’ll get there,” SM Supermalls president Steven Tan stated.
He stated one of many challenges for photo voltaic PV set up within the group’s older malls is that the roofing has to accommodate the burden of the photo voltaic panels.
“However as we renovate, as we redevelop our malls, that’s a possibility for us to place within the photo voltaic panels. We might be together with that as a part of our redevelopment,” he stated.
Final July, SM Supermalls unveiled the most important rooftop photo voltaic PV system on a business constructing within the nation at SM Metropolis Fairview with a 3.79-megawatt peak solar energy capability.
SM Metropolis Fairview’s photo voltaic PV system has a mean annual photo voltaic manufacturing of as much as 5,960-megawatt-hour, able to powering 11 % of the mall’s annual power consumption.
Additional, it prevents the discharge of 4,133 tons of carbon dioxide into the ambiance with yearly of operations, strengthening SM’s dedication towards environmental sustainability and company resilience.
Tan, nonetheless, stated SM Metropolis Fairview’s title of getting the most important rooftop photo voltaic panel system might quickly be eclipsed with a bigger set up within the works at SM North EDSA.
SM North EDSA was the primary Philippine mall to have a rooftop photo voltaic PV set up in 2014 with a 1.5-megawatt peak capability.
“This September, I feel we are going to nonetheless be launching a much bigger one. That’s excellent news for everybody. North EDSA can be the title holder as the most important as we launch greater than 4 megawatt-peak for our photo voltaic panels,” Tan stated.
“There’s a goal that by the top of the yr, we must always attain 100 megawatt-peak for the whole for all SM Supermalls within the nation,” he stated.
SM Supermalls, the nation’s largest mall developer, is constantly evolving to paved the way in sustainable improvement by integrating inexperienced design, power effectivity, catastrophe resilience and environmental stewardship into its community of malls nationwide.
Its photo voltaic PV system installations contribute to SM Prime’s Web Zero 2040 aim towards a big discount of the corporate’s whole carbon footprint.
