DUMAGUETE CITY, Negros Oriental, March 25 (PIA) -- Silliman University (SU) has renewed its power supply contract with geothermal supplier Energy Development Corporation (EDC) for another two years.

The only university in Negros Island and one of the few in the country to be 100% powered by renewable energy (RE), Silliman is known for its strong environmental conservation programs.

SU President Dr. Betty Cernol McCann emphasized that the move to renew Silliman’s power supply contract with EDC manifests “our institution’s commitment in institutionalizing our environmental principles, policies, and guidelines that serves as the blueprint for the university’s major component activities in which the renewable energy utilization is one.”

SU, as an institution, shows the way by being a model of a sustainable campus, demonstrating the principles of Zero Waste, the waste management hierarchy, energy conservation, renewable energy utilization, biodiversity conservation, and a reduced carbon footprint, McCann added.  

The university has chosen to stay with First Gen-owned EDC for its full load requirement not only because the power that it provides is clean, renewable, and reliable but also cheaper.

This is based on its experience when it first shifted to the RE provider’s geothermal power or Geo 24/7 two years back.

Part of SU’s power supply also comes from its own solar power panels.

Silliman University is a proud partner of EDC-initiated "10 million trees in 10 years for a Greener Negros Movement (10Min10)" that aims to plant, grow, and nurture at least 10 million trees to bring back the forests in Negros Island.  (JCT/PIA7 Negros Oriental)