Access to clean drinking water is something most Filipinos in cities and town areas take for granted. For one remote barangay in the mountains of Palawan and an island community connected by an undersea pipeline, it simply did not exist.

The Taytay Provincial Government commissioned this project as a pilot: a 54.00kWp solar-powered water pumping and distribution system drawing fresh water from a nearby lake and delivering it through a gravity-fed network to communities that had never had a reliable potable water supply. There was no grid connection. No fuel supply chain. Solar was not the preferred option; it was the only viable one.

Solaren specified Danfoss VACON drive technology paired with SolarWorld Germany bifacial glass/glass modules, sized around a 45.90kW peak load. The system generates 79,650kWh annually and has operated without interruption since January 2018, now eight years of continuous community service.

The numbers tell one story. The reality on the ground tells another. This remains one of the most meaningful projects in Solaren’s portfolio, demonstrating that industrial-scale solar power systems can deliver essential infrastructure in locations where no other energy source is practical.