Globe has started shifting more than 3,000 cell sites and other low-energy utilization facilities to renewable energy (RE) in Metro Manila and Region IV-A, with completion expected no later than 2028.
Demonstrating its continued leadership in climate action, Globe scales up its net-zero ambition by being the first telco and digital service provider in the Philippines to adopt the Retail Aggregation Program (RAP) to shift a significantly broader set of the company’s sites to 100% RE. The initiative goes beyond utilizing the Green Energy Option (GEOP) and Retail Competition and Open Access (RCOA) to source renewable energy, which Globe also pioneered in the industry in 2019.
The switching of these 3,000+ sites to renewable energy through RAP is expected to avoid an estimated 5.5 million kilograms of CO2e GHG emissions per year, while providing 80 million kilowatt-hours of electricity sourced from renewable energy annually.
This latest effort follows Globe’s ongoing use of renewable energy across 33 high energy-utilization facilities, 22 of which are supported by Power Purchase Agreements with ACEN RES. RAP enables Globe’s broader efforts to decarbonize its operations and lower its overall environmental impact.
Initiated by the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC), RAP allows a single owner or business franchise to aggregate its electricity-consuming facilities within a distribution utility’s franchise area, provided their combined peak demand over the past three months averages at least 500 kilowatts. It also enables them to directly negotiate with licensed retail electricity suppliers (RES), such as ACEN RES. Consequently, RAP empowers consumers to negotiate with and select RES that offers their preferred supply source, such as renewable energy for Globe.
“We are grateful to the DOE for leading the renewable energy transition and for ERC for enabling us to transition our smaller sites. With RAP, we are able to address the urgent need to reduce emissions at scale. By expanding our sourcing of renewable energy to thousands of additional sites, we are taking deliberate steps toward our Net Zero goals and proving that clean energy is not only viable but necessary across all operational levels.” said Yoly Crisanto, Globe’s Chief Sustainability and Corporate Communications Officer.
The move is expected to bring down Globe’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, in support of its commitments under the Science-Based Targets initiative (SBTi). Globe aims for a 42% reduction in absolute Scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions and 25% reduction in Scope 3 emissions by 2030, based on a 2021 baseline. It has also set a long-term goal to reduce absolute emissions across Scopes 1, 2, and 3 by 90% by 2050 from a 2021 baseline.
Irene Maranan, SVP and Head for Communications & Sustainability : “This collaboration with Globe reflects the strength of synergies across the Ayala group in driving meaningful climate action. By enabling the shift of over 3,000 sites to renewable energy, we are not only accelerating Globe’s Scope 2 emissions reduction, but also advancing our collective net zero ambition as a group.”
The partnership between Globe and ACEN supports the Department of Energy’s goal of substantially increasing the share of renewables in the country’s energy mix to 35 percent by 2030 and to 50 percent by 2040.
Globe’s efforts were recently cited in GSMA’s “Mobile Net Zero: State of the Industry on Climate Action 2025” report, which featured the company’s sourcing of electricity from renewable energy sources for both on-grid and off-grid sites. (PR)
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Ruckus has erupted following the trip of the former and now detained president as hi supporters do not accept his destiny of reaching his desired destination in his desired destination. It would be recalled that the former and now detained president had expressed his desire to let the International Criminal Court (ICC) conduct the investigation on his alleged bloody war on drugs immediately as he might not live long before such investigation commence.
He challenged the ICC to come to the country to arrest him with the threat that he would slap and kick them if they happen to meet. The boisterous stance was a show of untouchable power as no individual, group or agency dared to raise any complaint against him. The situation was under his control as he carryout his bloody war on drugs with impunity.
It is of public knowledge that the survivors of the victims of the bloody war on drugs could not do anything but wail as they grieve in fear for the victims who were mercilessly killed by law enforcement authorities who were following his order to kill all suspected criminals and drug addicts. The instruction to the police was loud and clear that they have to pose in self-defense by letting the suspects resist the arrest and fight, if not, the police officers must provoke the suspects to fight to justify the killing.
After the killing, the killed suspect would then be portrayed with a gun and a cardboard label with the tag “adik ako, huwag tularan” placed on the dead body of the fallen suspect. Law enforcers were too bold to carryout the orders as they were made to believe that the killing is legal considering that the former and now detained president kept on bragging that he is a lawyer and a former fiscal who had enough experience on how to deal with criminals. But even a non-lawyer could understand that when the criminal gives the provocation, self-defense would not hold under the law.
With nowhere to go, the surviving families who were orphaned by the helpless innocent victims of the bloody war on drugs, they resorted to bring their complaints before the ICC. Supporters of the former and now detained president argued that the ICC could not take jurisdiction as domestic courts and the justice system is working in the country.
But the reality is that the courts and the justice system was well and working insofar as all cases are concerned except those against the former and now detained president and his minions in the bloody war on drugs. Police records were found replete with records of such killings, reason why the state prosecution could not start its investigation. More so that the one to be accused is the former and now detained president. In the meantime, the supporters are moving for their idol to return come.
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