MANILA– The environment department and its partners will extend to more qualified public and private recipients nationwide grants for helping replace inefficient chillers with environment-friendly, energy-efficient and have refrigerants with low or no potential to deplete the ozone layer that protects Earth from the sun’s harmful ultra-violet rays.
The environment department gave such assurance as it spearheaded Monday afternoon in Metro Manila ceremonial turn-over of the PhP1.3 million grant to five-star hotel The Peninsula Manila which applied for, and is the first recipient of, the Philippine Chiller Energy-Efficient Project subsidy for facilitating such shift to more efficient chillers.
“I hope all hotel chains in the Philippines can follow what The Peninsula Manila did,” environment chief Ramon Paje said during the event.
He extended the same call to chiller-using players in other industries.
PCEEP is backed by USD2.6 million and USD1 million funding from DENR’s partners Global Environment Facility and the Multilateral Fund, respectively.
Such funding is projected to cover replacement of at least 53 inefficient chiller units, DENR said.
Refrigerants with ozone-depleting substances are found in older, inefficient chillers, DENR noted.
The project’s task team leader Viraj Vithoontien from World Bank said the grant covers 15 percent of cost for a chiller that’ll replace an inefficient one.
Such subsidy will be granted upon completion of the replacement chiller’s installation, he noted.
The funding assistance will end in December 2014 so interested chiller owners must submit their respective applications to Dept. of Environment and Natural Resources as soon as possible for consideration, he said.
DENR and its partners came up with PCEEP, noting shifting to more efficient chillers will reap environmental gains for the Philippines and help the country better comply with its obligations under the Montreal Protocol. (PNA)
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